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2023 Monroe County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Monroe County, WV went without power for an average of 30.0 hours, a total of 115K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 240th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Monroe County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 28, 2023 20:45 | August 1, 2023 19:30 | 3d 22h | 3,691 | 58K |
| 2 | November 21, 2023 13:30 | November 22, 2023 02:15 | 12h 45m | 2,236 | 14K |
| 3 | June 23, 2023 19:15 | June 24, 2023 04:00 | 8h 45m | 1,138 | 3,443 |
| 4 | April 1, 2023 12:30 | April 3, 2023 07:00 | 1d 18h | 675 | 2,064 |
| 5 | July 24, 2023 00:00 | July 26, 2023 19:00 | 2d 19h | 634 | 2,658 |
| 6 | August 7, 2023 20:45 | August 10, 2023 00:30 | 2d 3h | 512 | 8,791 |
| 7 | February 17, 2023 23:00 | February 18, 2023 14:45 | 15h 45m | 472 | 1,198 |
| 8 | September 28, 2023 13:30 | September 28, 2023 17:15 | 3h 45m | 467 | 481 |
| 9 | May 3, 2023 19:15 | May 3, 2023 22:15 | 3h | 411 | 501 |
| 10 | January 21, 2023 03:45 | January 21, 2023 06:00 | 2h 15m | 398 | 794 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 26 reached 100+ customers, 3 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Monroe County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2023 | 11.5 hrs | 2.12 | 6.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| Monongahela Power Co | 2023 | 12.4 hrs | 2.57 | 6.0 hrs | 2.00 |
| Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop | 2018 | 25.9 hrs | 6.04 | 8.7 hrs | 3.51 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of West Virginia's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,829 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Monroe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monroe County, WV annual power outage report, 2023, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/west-virginia/monroe-county