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2015 Jefferson County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Jefferson County, WV went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 168K customer-hours (West Virginia average 17.4 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 506th 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 Jefferson 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 | August 17, 2015 18:00 | August 18, 2015 00:00 | 6h | 20,930 | 27K |
| 2 | February 16, 2015 23:00 | February 17, 2015 09:00 | 10h | 4,546 | 6,397 |
| 3 | June 16, 2015 22:45 | June 17, 2015 01:00 | 2h 15m | 3,802 | 5,704 |
| 4 | June 27, 2015 10:00 | June 28, 2015 11:45 | 1d 1h | 3,796 | 19K |
| 5 | January 15, 2015 12:15 | January 15, 2015 16:30 | 4h 15m | 3,784 | 10K |
| 6 | August 4, 2015 08:15 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 9h 30m | 2,774 | 6,297 |
| 7 | June 23, 2015 10:00 | June 25, 2015 05:45 | 1d 19h | 2,168 | 18K |
| 8 | February 17, 2015 16:45 | February 17, 2015 20:00 | 3h 15m | 2,158 | 3,780 |
| 9 | July 28, 2015 13:00 | July 29, 2015 00:45 | 11h 45m | 2,126 | 5,726 |
| 10 | February 20, 2015 07:15 | February 20, 2015 08:45 | 1h 30m | 1,894 | 2,396 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 72 reached 100+ customers, 16 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Jefferson 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 ÷ 30,664 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county