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2024 McDowell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in McDowell County, WV went without power for an average of 50.0 hours, a total of 567K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 206th 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 McDowell 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 | September 26, 2024 22:00 | October 5, 2024 21:15 | 8d 23h | 4,886 | 343K |
| 2 | May 26, 2024 20:30 | May 31, 2024 03:45 | 4d 7h | 3,703 | 111K |
| 3 | October 7, 2024 09:45 | October 7, 2024 11:00 | 1h 15m | 2,369 | 2,958 |
| 4 | October 27, 2024 03:00 | October 27, 2024 12:00 | 9h | 2,361 | 18K |
| 5 | November 20, 2024 19:15 | November 21, 2024 19:30 | 1d | 1,029 | 2,983 |
| 6 | February 28, 2024 11:30 | February 29, 2024 06:30 | 19h | 938 | 5,750 |
| 7 | March 25, 2024 13:00 | March 26, 2024 15:45 | 1d 2h | 834 | 1,751 |
| 8 | August 18, 2024 19:15 | August 20, 2024 05:30 | 1d 10h | 715 | 5,405 |
| 9 | February 7, 2024 14:00 | February 7, 2024 17:45 | 3h 45m | 688 | 2,049 |
| 10 | January 12, 2024 14:45 | January 16, 2024 17:00 | 4d 2h | 629 | 9,820 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 46 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 McDowell 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 ÷ 11,336 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county