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2024 Nicholas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Nicholas County, WV went without power for an average of 61.8 hours, a total of 910K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 160th 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 Nicholas 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 14:00 | April 7, 2024 11:30 | 4d 21h | 10,548 | 454K |
| 2 | May 26, 2024 21:30 | May 30, 2024 19:15 | 3d 21h | 5,471 | 171K |
| 3 | January 11, 2024 15:15 | January 16, 2024 23:15 | 5d 8h | 3,807 | 117K |
| 4 | July 4, 2024 00:00 | July 4, 2024 03:15 | 3h 15m | 2,391 | 4,222 |
| 5 | December 11, 2024 06:00 | December 11, 2024 13:45 | 7h 45m | 2,005 | 5,484 |
| 6 | December 11, 2024 16:30 | December 11, 2024 18:15 | 1h 45m | 2,003 | 3,505 |
| 7 | April 11, 2024 22:45 | April 13, 2024 02:30 | 1d 3h | 1,644 | 6,005 |
| 8 | June 10, 2024 15:45 | June 11, 2024 05:15 | 13h 30m | 1,399 | 5,921 |
| 9 | November 19, 2024 15:45 | November 19, 2024 18:30 | 2h 45m | 1,387 | 1,329 |
| 10 | June 21, 2024 13:00 | June 21, 2024 21:15 | 8h 15m | 1,297 | 5,253 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 76 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Nicholas 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 |
| Monongahela Power Co | 2024 | 14.2 hrs | 2.87 | 7.7 hrs | 2.34 |
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 ÷ 14,725 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county