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2024 Putnam County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Putnam County, WV went without power for an average of 13.9 hours, a total of 487K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 705th 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 Putnam 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 13:00 | April 6, 2024 22:45 | 4d 9h | 8,480 | 268K |
| 2 | August 29, 2024 22:00 | September 1, 2024 01:15 | 2d 3h | 3,237 | 18K |
| 3 | November 20, 2024 16:45 | November 21, 2024 17:15 | 1d | 2,327 | 6,996 |
| 4 | May 8, 2024 08:00 | May 8, 2024 22:15 | 14h 15m | 2,207 | 6,173 |
| 5 | December 31, 2024 14:45 | January 1, 2025 00:00 | 9h 15m | 1,732 | 1,974 |
| 6 | August 6, 2024 12:00 | August 6, 2024 19:45 | 7h 45m | 1,727 | 2,950 |
| 7 | February 13, 2024 05:00 | February 15, 2024 02:45 | 1d 21h | 1,656 | 4,265 |
| 8 | August 26, 2024 23:45 | August 27, 2024 01:15 | 1h 30m | 1,603 | 411 |
| 9 | July 21, 2024 08:45 | July 21, 2024 19:30 | 10h 45m | 1,573 | 3,150 |
| 10 | December 29, 2024 22:15 | December 31, 2024 02:00 | 1d 3h | 1,418 | 8,858 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 96 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Putnam 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 ÷ 35,147 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county