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2025 Putnam County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Putnam County, WV went without power for an average of 8.9 hours, a total of 313K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.3 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 905th 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 Putnam 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 14, 2025 19:45 | February 15, 2025 21:45 | 1d 2h | 3,824 | 28K |
| 2 | March 5, 2025 15:15 | March 6, 2025 02:15 | 11h | 2,938 | 802 |
| 3 | April 3, 2025 09:15 | April 4, 2025 22:30 | 1d 13h | 2,772 | 14K |
| 4 | February 16, 2025 12:15 | February 19, 2025 00:45 | 2d 12h | 2,715 | 13K |
| 5 | December 19, 2025 06:00 | December 21, 2025 20:30 | 2d 14h | 2,479 | 25K |
| 6 | January 6, 2025 07:15 | January 9, 2025 22:15 | 3d 15h | 2,025 | 37K |
| 7 | May 17, 2025 02:30 | May 19, 2025 03:30 | 2d 1h | 1,614 | 28K |
| 8 | February 11, 2025 18:15 | February 11, 2025 21:00 | 2h 45m | 1,564 | 1,967 |
| 9 | February 12, 2025 00:15 | February 12, 2025 03:45 | 3h 30m | 1,558 | 2,349 |
| 10 | April 14, 2025 21:30 | April 16, 2025 05:30 | 1d 8h | 1,495 | 19K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 108 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Putnam 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 ÷ 35,147 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county