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2015 Preston County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Preston County, WV went without power for an average of 8.3 hours, a total of 158K customer-hours (West Virginia average 17.4 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 318th 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 Preston 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 19, 2015 12:45 | August 20, 2015 06:45 | 18h | 5,002 | 13K |
| 2 | August 3, 2015 12:15 | August 3, 2015 17:30 | 5h 15m | 4,982 | 19K |
| 3 | June 17, 2015 14:15 | June 18, 2015 02:00 | 11h 45m | 2,402 | 835 |
| 4 | March 27, 2015 00:30 | March 27, 2015 03:00 | 2h 30m | 2,202 | 1,105 |
| 5 | June 18, 2015 16:30 | June 19, 2015 19:45 | 1d 3h | 1,862 | 11K |
| 6 | March 5, 2015 04:15 | March 8, 2015 06:00 | 3d 1h | 1,664 | 27K |
| 7 | January 5, 2015 09:00 | January 5, 2015 15:30 | 6h 30m | 1,512 | 6,863 |
| 8 | March 10, 2015 20:00 | March 11, 2015 00:15 | 4h 15m | 1,454 | 3,213 |
| 9 | October 18, 2015 13:45 | October 18, 2015 16:30 | 2h 45m | 1,258 | 2,526 |
| 10 | October 28, 2015 02:00 | October 30, 2015 00:00 | 1d 22h | 1,246 | 5,077 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 60 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Preston 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 ÷ 18,977 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. Preston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Preston 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/preston-county