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2025 Ritchie County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Ritchie County, WV went without power for an average of 57.8 hours, a total of 288K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.3 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 63rd 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 Ritchie 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 | June 3, 2025 11:00 | June 3, 2025 20:30 | 9h 30m | 6,062 | 26K |
| 2 | December 19, 2025 07:30 | December 22, 2025 21:00 | 3d 13h | 3,171 | 71K |
| 3 | January 23, 2025 15:45 | January 23, 2025 21:45 | 6h | 3,085 | 5,699 |
| 4 | May 8, 2025 23:45 | May 9, 2025 03:45 | 4h | 3,084 | 6,227 |
| 5 | March 16, 2025 16:00 | March 19, 2025 19:15 | 3d 3h | 1,819 | 18K |
| 6 | April 8, 2025 06:00 | April 8, 2025 12:30 | 6h 30m | 1,357 | 8,012 |
| 7 | December 5, 2025 21:15 | December 6, 2025 02:45 | 5h 30m | 1,357 | 2,799 |
| 8 | May 30, 2025 19:00 | June 2, 2025 17:15 | 2d 22h | 1,284 | 31K |
| 9 | January 17, 2025 12:00 | January 17, 2025 20:15 | 8h 15m | 1,265 | 2,070 |
| 10 | May 17, 2025 06:45 | May 18, 2025 23:30 | 1d 16h | 1,258 | 7,384 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 56 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Ritchie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 4,984 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. Ritchie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ritchie 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/ritchie-county