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2015 Hardy County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Hardy County, WV went without power for an average of 10.1 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (West Virginia average 17.4 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 262nd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hardy County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 12, 2015 20:00 | November 14, 2015 01:00 | 1d 5h | 5,192 | 5,740 |
| 2 | April 16, 2015 13:15 | April 16, 2015 14:00 | 45m | 4,430 | 3,323 |
| 3 | February 10, 2015 06:45 | February 10, 2015 17:00 | 10h 15m | 4,342 | 24K |
| 4 | November 9, 2015 10:00 | November 9, 2015 12:15 | 2h 15m | 1,692 | 1,699 |
| 5 | October 2, 2015 15:30 | October 2, 2015 21:30 | 6h | 1,686 | 1,348 |
| 6 | July 8, 2015 13:00 | July 8, 2015 15:00 | 2h | 1,278 | 2,556 |
| 7 | July 24, 2015 14:00 | July 24, 2015 15:00 | 1h | 1,144 | 1,144 |
| 8 | January 10, 2015 10:00 | January 10, 2015 14:30 | 4h 30m | 1,048 | 1,892 |
| 9 | June 15, 2015 13:30 | June 15, 2015 17:30 | 4h | 922 | 1,386 |
| 10 | October 3, 2015 08:00 | October 3, 2015 13:45 | 5h 45m | 670 | 1,760 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 61 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Hardy County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 0.96 | 2.1 hrs | 0.95 |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,586 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. Hardy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardy County, WV annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/west-virginia/hardy-county