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2024 Lincoln County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lincoln County, WV went without power for an average of 58.5 hours, a total of 691K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 169th 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 Lincoln 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 2, 2024 01:15 | April 7, 2024 01:15 | 5d | 7,206 | 235K |
| 2 | March 24, 2024 04:00 | March 24, 2024 16:15 | 12h 15m | 4,382 | 26K |
| 3 | July 14, 2024 23:00 | July 16, 2024 01:15 | 1d 2h | 3,444 | 24K |
| 4 | January 12, 2024 19:30 | January 15, 2024 04:30 | 2d 9h | 3,361 | 52K |
| 5 | November 20, 2024 05:30 | November 22, 2024 19:00 | 2d 13h | 2,823 | 20K |
| 6 | May 26, 2024 20:15 | May 29, 2024 02:00 | 2d 5h | 2,786 | 63K |
| 7 | March 10, 2024 04:45 | March 10, 2024 10:15 | 5h 30m | 2,341 | 11K |
| 8 | October 27, 2024 04:15 | October 27, 2024 07:45 | 3h 30m | 2,288 | 7,904 |
| 9 | December 5, 2024 07:30 | December 5, 2024 18:15 | 10h 45m | 1,610 | 3,177 |
| 10 | June 15, 2024 14:30 | June 16, 2024 02:45 | 12h 15m | 1,529 | 6,719 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 80 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Lincoln 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 ÷ 11,820 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county