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County annual report · FIPS 54087

2023 Roane County, WV Power Outage Report

In 2023, customers in Roane County, WV went without power for an average of 36.9 hours, a total of 301K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 171st of 2,977 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
36.9
8,158 customers
Customer-hours out
301K
Peak customers out
2,956
Outages ≥1,000 out
9
0 of 10,000+ · 394 total
Longest outage
4d 9h
began March 25, 2023
Rank in state
7th/55
171st of 2,977 US

Compared with WV, the US and 2022

Roane County, WV average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2023Roane County 36.9 hours, West Virginia average 13.6 hours, US average 7.1 hours, Roane County, 2022 38.0 hoursRoane CountyRoane County36.9hWest Virginia averageWest Virginia average13.6hUS averageUS average7.1hRoane County, 2022Roane County, 202238.0h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2023; last bar is this county in 2022.

Month by month

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Roane County, WV customer-hours without power by month, 2023Jan 9,063, Feb 10K, Mar 104K, Apr 54K, May 5,328, Jun 8,646, Jul 66K, Aug 29K, Sep 6,088, Oct 5,822, Nov 3,616, Dec 497050k100k150k9,063Jan10KFeb104KMar54KApr5,328May8,646Jun66KJul29KAug6,088Sep5,822Oct3,616Nov497Dec
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Customer-hours; March was the worst month.

Roane County year over year

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Roane County, WV: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 54.3h; 2016: 68.3h; 2017: 35.5h; 2018: 28.0h, coverage 100%; 2019: 32.4h, coverage 100%; 2020: 23.0h, coverage 100%; 2021: 19.7h, coverage 97%; 2022: 38.0h, coverage 100%; 2023: 36.9h; 2024: 29.5h; 2025: 25.9h0204060800%50%100%54.3h201568.3h201635.5h201728.0h201832.4h201923.0h202019.7h202138.0h202236.9h202329.5h202425.9h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Roane County, 2023

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1March 25, 2023 11:00March 29, 2023 20:304d 9h2,95660K
2March 3, 2023 19:30March 7, 2023 22:454d 3h2,31639K
3March 31, 2023 22:00April 4, 2023 23:154d 1h2,29549K
4July 27, 2023 20:30August 1, 2023 00:304d 4h2,22848K
5August 7, 2023 16:45August 9, 2023 00:301d 7h1,70214K
6November 11, 2023 10:15November 11, 2023 11:151h1,5271,527
7February 17, 2023 14:15February 18, 2023 15:301d 1h1,112948
8November 9, 2023 11:15November 9, 2023 12:301h 15m1,1061,380
9September 18, 2023 08:15September 18, 2023 11:153h1,090284
10January 26, 2023 01:00January 26, 2023 21:0020h9336,214

Outage episodes by size in 2023: 43 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Roane County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Appalachian Power Co202311.5 hrs2.126.9 hrs1.77
Monongahela Power Co202312.4 hrs2.576.0 hrs2.00

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 ÷ 8,158 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. Roane County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Roane 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/roane-county

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