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2025 Nicholas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Nicholas County, WV went without power for an average of 15.6 hours, a total of 230K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.3 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 479th 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 Nicholas 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 16, 2025 16:45 | February 19, 2025 21:15 | 3d 4h | 5,281 | 65K |
| 2 | June 25, 2025 22:30 | June 26, 2025 17:45 | 19h 15m | 2,538 | 14K |
| 3 | June 5, 2025 22:30 | June 6, 2025 04:45 | 6h 15m | 2,000 | 4,014 |
| 4 | June 26, 2025 19:15 | July 11, 2025 03:30 | 14d 8h | 1,844 | 23K |
| 5 | December 19, 2025 06:45 | December 21, 2025 19:45 | 2d 13h | 1,600 | 21K |
| 6 | April 30, 2025 01:15 | May 1, 2025 19:45 | 1d 18h | 1,523 | 25K |
| 7 | June 16, 2025 21:45 | June 17, 2025 23:30 | 1d 1h | 1,497 | 7,936 |
| 8 | October 19, 2025 16:15 | October 20, 2025 02:15 | 10h | 1,425 | 3,857 |
| 9 | July 29, 2025 20:00 | July 30, 2025 06:45 | 10h 45m | 1,396 | 2,392 |
| 10 | May 17, 2025 04:45 | May 18, 2025 18:30 | 1d 13h | 721 | 7,338 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 49 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Nicholas 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 |
| 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,725 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. Nicholas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicholas 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/nicholas-county