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2024 Ritchie County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Ritchie County, WV went without power for an average of 23.6 hours, a total of 117K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 424th 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 Ritchie 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 17, 2024 20:00 | April 19, 2024 06:30 | 1d 10h | 1,886 | 26K |
| 2 | June 14, 2024 08:00 | June 14, 2024 12:45 | 4h 45m | 1,835 | 935 |
| 3 | December 29, 2024 23:45 | January 1, 2025 00:00 | 2d | 1,370 | 16K |
| 4 | September 26, 2024 11:30 | September 26, 2024 18:30 | 7h | 1,258 | 7,139 |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 16:00 | January 10, 2024 20:00 | 1d 4h | 1,190 | 17K |
| 6 | November 20, 2024 20:15 | November 21, 2024 21:45 | 1d 1h | 698 | 5,505 |
| 7 | May 26, 2024 22:00 | May 28, 2024 23:15 | 2d 1h | 615 | 4,573 |
| 8 | August 18, 2024 10:30 | August 19, 2024 01:00 | 14h 30m | 557 | 7,994 |
| 9 | March 2, 2024 04:45 | March 2, 2024 07:15 | 2h 30m | 526 | 1,266 |
| 10 | December 17, 2024 03:45 | December 17, 2024 13:30 | 9h 45m | 468 | 1,160 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 33 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 Ritchie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 4,984 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. Ritchie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ritchie 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/ritchie-county