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2025 McDowell County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in McDowell County, WV went without power for an average of 31.0 hours, a total of 351K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.3 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 181st 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 McDowell 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 | February 15, 2025 19:30 | February 21, 2025 14:45 | 5d 19h | 3,073 | 163K |
| 2 | December 19, 2025 06:15 | December 21, 2025 02:15 | 1d 20h | 1,842 | 44K |
| 3 | April 2, 2025 14:45 | April 2, 2025 22:45 | 8h | 1,338 | 2,691 |
| 4 | December 25, 2025 14:15 | December 25, 2025 17:00 | 2h 45m | 1,324 | 2,343 |
| 5 | March 15, 2025 20:30 | March 17, 2025 18:30 | 1d 22h | 1,314 | 6,967 |
| 6 | May 16, 2025 17:45 | May 19, 2025 00:45 | 2d 7h | 899 | 20K |
| 7 | January 6, 2025 04:00 | January 11, 2025 22:45 | 5d 18h | 825 | 30K |
| 8 | June 26, 2025 22:00 | June 27, 2025 07:30 | 9h 30m | 817 | 1,901 |
| 9 | April 25, 2025 08:45 | April 26, 2025 04:45 | 20h | 759 | 765 |
| 10 | February 10, 2025 21:15 | February 13, 2025 00:00 | 2d 2h | 754 | 4,163 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 45 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 McDowell 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 ÷ 11,336 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. McDowell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McDowell 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/mcdowell-county