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2024 Kanawha County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Kanawha County, WV went without power for an average of 51.6 hours, a total of 3.4M customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 194th 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 Kanawha 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 | March 30, 2024 12:45 | April 9, 2024 08:00 | 9d 19h | 59,406 | 2.3M |
| 2 | July 11, 2024 11:30 | July 16, 2024 03:45 | 4d 16h | 6,981 | 53K |
| 3 | August 28, 2024 08:30 | September 1, 2024 21:30 | 4d 13h | 6,135 | 72K |
| 4 | April 11, 2024 09:00 | April 17, 2024 03:15 | 5d 18h | 6,113 | 82K |
| 5 | May 26, 2024 20:00 | June 1, 2024 13:15 | 5d 17h | 6,036 | 130K |
| 6 | September 24, 2024 04:45 | October 8, 2024 19:00 | 14d 14h | 4,379 | 97K |
| 7 | September 18, 2024 08:00 | September 19, 2024 08:30 | 1d | 4,363 | 15K |
| 8 | November 19, 2024 02:00 | November 24, 2024 02:45 | 5d | 3,672 | 31K |
| 9 | December 29, 2024 07:00 | December 31, 2024 03:30 | 1d 20h | 3,648 | 17K |
| 10 | June 17, 2024 05:00 | June 19, 2024 18:00 | 2d 13h | 3,450 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 166 reached 100+ customers, 47 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Kanawha 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 |
| 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 65,999 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. Kanawha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kanawha 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/kanawha-county