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2025 Kanawha County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Kanawha County, WV went without power for an average of 23.9 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.3 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 269th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kanawha County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 19, 2025 06:15 | December 22, 2025 03:00 | 2d 20h | 12,714 | 201K |
| 2 | January 6, 2025 02:30 | January 13, 2025 01:15 | 6d 22h | 11,872 | 387K |
| 3 | February 15, 2025 15:00 | February 20, 2025 01:30 | 4d 10h | 7,926 | 123K |
| 4 | April 29, 2025 18:30 | May 3, 2025 14:45 | 3d 20h | 6,642 | 68K |
| 5 | May 15, 2025 08:15 | May 20, 2025 03:45 | 4d 19h | 5,832 | 103K |
| 6 | July 11, 2025 20:30 | July 12, 2025 22:30 | 1d 2h | 4,929 | 8,470 |
| 7 | November 22, 2025 05:45 | November 23, 2025 22:30 | 1d 16h | 4,497 | 39K |
| 8 | April 3, 2025 08:30 | April 7, 2025 20:45 | 4d 12h | 4,328 | 21K |
| 9 | September 22, 2025 02:15 | September 24, 2025 01:45 | 1d 23h | 3,912 | 20K |
| 10 | September 13, 2025 03:45 | September 13, 2025 09:30 | 5h 45m | 3,691 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 166 reached 100+ customers, 43 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Kanawha County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| Black Diamond Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 65,999 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. Kanawha County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kanawha County, WV annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/west-virginia/kanawha-county