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2015 Pocahontas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Pocahontas County, WV went without power for an average of 62.0 hours, a total of 285K customer-hours (West Virginia average 17.4 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 31st 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 Pocahontas 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 | April 19, 2015 23:15 | April 20, 2015 02:15 | 3h | 10,208 | 8,822 |
| 2 | July 14, 2015 21:00 | July 16, 2015 20:00 | 1d 23h | 7,140 | 106K |
| 3 | October 19, 2015 12:15 | October 19, 2015 23:15 | 11h | 5,420 | 41K |
| 4 | August 25, 2015 13:00 | August 25, 2015 20:30 | 7h 30m | 3,150 | 20K |
| 5 | February 17, 2015 12:00 | February 17, 2015 21:30 | 9h 30m | 2,768 | 20K |
| 6 | May 26, 2015 00:45 | May 26, 2015 02:30 | 1h 45m | 2,532 | 4,431 |
| 7 | October 3, 2015 05:30 | October 3, 2015 08:15 | 2h 45m | 2,530 | 6,322 |
| 8 | November 25, 2015 13:30 | November 25, 2015 18:15 | 4h 45m | 2,524 | 12K |
| 9 | December 19, 2015 13:15 | December 19, 2015 17:45 | 4h 30m | 2,520 | 11K |
| 10 | December 12, 2015 19:30 | December 12, 2015 22:45 | 3h 15m | 2,244 | 3,747 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 48 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 Pocahontas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monongahela Power Co | 2015 | 13.6 hrs | 2.18 | 6.1 hrs | 1.89 |
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 ÷ 4,599 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. Pocahontas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pocahontas 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/pocahontas-county