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2023 Ritchie County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ritchie County, WV went without power for an average of 36.0 hours, a total of 179K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 176th 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 Ritchie 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 19:45 | August 1, 2023 02:30 | 3d 6h | 2,369 | 22K |
| 2 | March 25, 2023 15:45 | March 29, 2023 23:45 | 4d 8h | 1,784 | 71K |
| 3 | April 5, 2023 17:45 | April 6, 2023 21:30 | 1d 3h | 1,603 | 5,042 |
| 4 | March 3, 2023 22:45 | March 6, 2023 17:00 | 2d 18h | 1,517 | 14K |
| 5 | July 20, 2023 12:00 | July 20, 2023 17:00 | 5h | 1,371 | 5,830 |
| 6 | June 29, 2023 13:15 | June 29, 2023 18:00 | 4h 45m | 1,286 | 340 |
| 7 | June 29, 2023 11:45 | June 29, 2023 12:30 | 45m | 1,285 | 643 |
| 8 | April 1, 2023 02:30 | April 4, 2023 16:45 | 3d 14h | 1,190 | 22K |
| 9 | September 25, 2023 12:45 | September 25, 2023 20:00 | 7h 15m | 654 | 2,133 |
| 10 | August 25, 2023 08:45 | August 26, 2023 03:00 | 18h 15m | 636 | 3,538 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 37 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 Ritchie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 4,984 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. Ritchie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ritchie 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/ritchie-county