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2023 Putnam County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Putnam County, WV went without power for an average of 11.4 hours, a total of 399K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 753rd 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 Putnam 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 | March 25, 2023 12:45 | March 28, 2023 02:00 | 2d 13h | 5,598 | 69K |
| 2 | March 3, 2023 16:00 | March 7, 2023 03:30 | 3d 11h | 3,120 | 78K |
| 3 | March 31, 2023 16:45 | April 4, 2023 03:00 | 3d 10h | 2,535 | 47K |
| 4 | July 28, 2023 02:15 | July 31, 2023 00:45 | 2d 22h | 2,398 | 44K |
| 5 | July 15, 2023 05:00 | July 21, 2023 19:00 | 6d 14h | 1,811 | 24K |
| 6 | October 20, 2023 06:15 | October 20, 2023 19:45 | 13h 30m | 1,722 | 14K |
| 7 | October 21, 2023 07:45 | October 23, 2023 22:00 | 2d 14h | 1,409 | 1,285 |
| 8 | July 13, 2023 13:15 | July 15, 2023 02:30 | 1d 13h | 1,130 | 8,479 |
| 9 | March 24, 2023 09:30 | March 25, 2023 02:15 | 16h 45m | 983 | 1,826 |
| 10 | August 25, 2023 11:00 | August 26, 2023 15:30 | 1d 4h | 980 | 5,564 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 67 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Putnam 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 |
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 ÷ 35,147 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county