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2023 Nicholas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Nicholas County, WV went without power for an average of 21.1 hours, a total of 310K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 382nd 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 Nicholas 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 20:00 | August 1, 2023 03:15 | 3d 7h | 3,773 | 139K |
| 2 | March 3, 2023 19:00 | March 16, 2023 19:45 | 13d | 3,459 | 51K |
| 3 | January 25, 2023 14:00 | January 28, 2023 05:45 | 2d 15h | 2,513 | 19K |
| 4 | June 12, 2023 17:00 | June 13, 2023 00:15 | 7h 15m | 2,027 | 4,819 |
| 5 | July 3, 2023 01:45 | July 4, 2023 03:00 | 1d 1h | 2,018 | 4,746 |
| 6 | February 21, 2023 19:15 | February 22, 2023 00:30 | 5h 15m | 1,997 | 3,512 |
| 7 | April 1, 2023 16:30 | April 4, 2023 00:15 | 2d 7h | 1,707 | 7,842 |
| 8 | May 8, 2023 19:45 | May 9, 2023 01:15 | 5h 30m | 1,566 | 3,209 |
| 9 | September 9, 2023 19:00 | September 10, 2023 00:30 | 5h 30m | 1,391 | 2,497 |
| 10 | September 13, 2023 15:15 | September 13, 2023 19:30 | 4h 15m | 1,370 | 411 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 62 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Nicholas 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 |
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 ÷ 14,725 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county