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2025 Lincoln County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Lincoln County, WV went without power for an average of 45.8 hours, a total of 541K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.3 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 100th 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 Lincoln 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 | January 6, 2025 04:00 | January 13, 2025 00:30 | 6d 20h | 7,676 | 184K |
| 2 | May 16, 2025 17:00 | May 20, 2025 03:00 | 3d 10h | 4,179 | 77K |
| 3 | February 16, 2025 06:00 | February 18, 2025 22:30 | 2d 16h | 3,025 | 32K |
| 4 | December 19, 2025 06:00 | December 21, 2025 19:00 | 2d 13h | 2,925 | 23K |
| 5 | February 1, 2025 17:45 | February 2, 2025 05:15 | 11h 30m | 2,357 | 7,246 |
| 6 | July 20, 2025 00:00 | July 23, 2025 02:45 | 3d 2h | 2,220 | 27K |
| 7 | December 29, 2025 03:15 | December 30, 2025 08:00 | 1d 4h | 2,145 | 4,381 |
| 8 | June 26, 2025 22:00 | July 10, 2025 21:30 | 13d 23h | 1,593 | 33K |
| 9 | October 19, 2025 11:45 | October 20, 2025 04:15 | 16h 30m | 1,467 | 4,327 |
| 10 | December 4, 2025 07:30 | December 4, 2025 12:30 | 5h | 1,282 | 6,091 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 85 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Lincoln 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 |
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 ÷ 11,820 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county