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2024 Fayette County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Fayette County, WV went without power for an average of 52.1 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 193rd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fayette County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 1, 2024 21:15 | April 7, 2024 06:30 | 5d 9h | 17,737 | 527K |
| 2 | May 26, 2024 21:15 | May 30, 2024 18:30 | 3d 21h | 11,729 | 317K |
| 3 | January 12, 2024 13:30 | January 15, 2024 03:00 | 2d 13h | 3,854 | 98K |
| 4 | July 11, 2024 17:15 | July 12, 2024 18:00 | 1d | 3,754 | 9,115 |
| 5 | September 27, 2024 10:30 | October 2, 2024 22:15 | 5d 11h | 3,415 | 53K |
| 6 | December 27, 2024 16:45 | December 27, 2024 20:30 | 3h 45m | 3,106 | 3,303 |
| 7 | February 13, 2024 05:15 | February 14, 2024 15:45 | 1d 10h | 2,255 | 9,948 |
| 8 | January 9, 2024 03:00 | January 10, 2024 23:00 | 1d 20h | 1,958 | 20K |
| 9 | November 22, 2024 17:00 | November 23, 2024 05:00 | 12h | 1,669 | 4,070 |
| 10 | September 24, 2024 13:00 | September 25, 2024 00:30 | 11h 30m | 1,636 | 7,932 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 128 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Fayette County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 29.5 hrs | 2.79 | 7.7 hrs | 2.07 |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 23,870 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette County, WV annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/west-virginia/fayette-county