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2023 Raleigh County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Raleigh County, WV went without power for an average of 20.8 hours, a total of 525K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 388th 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 Raleigh 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 27, 2023 23:15 | August 1, 2023 19:45 | 4d 20h | 5,999 | 97K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 10:45 | April 4, 2023 04:45 | 2d 18h | 5,514 | 93K |
| 3 | May 14, 2023 03:45 | May 14, 2023 10:30 | 6h 45m | 3,970 | 16K |
| 4 | June 1, 2023 21:00 | June 6, 2023 00:15 | 4d 3h | 3,833 | 32K |
| 5 | August 28, 2023 10:15 | August 28, 2023 10:30 | 15m | 2,288 | 572 |
| 6 | May 22, 2023 16:15 | May 23, 2023 19:00 | 1d 2h | 1,879 | 12K |
| 7 | August 7, 2023 07:00 | August 9, 2023 23:15 | 2d 16h | 1,758 | 16K |
| 8 | March 24, 2023 18:30 | March 26, 2023 22:15 | 2d 3h | 1,720 | 19K |
| 9 | July 23, 2023 11:00 | July 23, 2023 14:30 | 3h 30m | 1,569 | 795 |
| 10 | July 27, 2023 21:15 | July 27, 2023 22:15 | 1h | 1,566 | 784 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 100 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Raleigh 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 |
| Black Diamond Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 25,284 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. Raleigh County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Raleigh 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/raleigh-county