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2015 Wetzel County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Wetzel County, WV went without power for an average of 51.4 hours, a total of 476K customer-hours (West Virginia average 17.4 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 45th 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 Wetzel 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 | March 5, 2015 03:30 | March 8, 2015 06:00 | 3d 2h | 8,502 | 287K |
| 2 | March 8, 2015 07:00 | March 12, 2015 00:30 | 3d 17h | 3,000 | 64K |
| 3 | June 20, 2015 14:00 | June 21, 2015 23:15 | 1d 9h | 2,985 | 6,989 |
| 4 | June 12, 2015 13:15 | June 12, 2015 15:30 | 2h 15m | 2,944 | 3,862 |
| 5 | June 23, 2015 13:15 | June 24, 2015 03:00 | 13h 45m | 2,332 | 19K |
| 6 | October 29, 2015 10:00 | October 30, 2015 03:00 | 17h | 2,107 | 4,062 |
| 7 | April 8, 2015 22:45 | April 9, 2015 21:00 | 22h 15m | 1,688 | 16K |
| 8 | November 20, 2015 14:45 | November 20, 2015 17:15 | 2h 30m | 1,524 | 1,636 |
| 9 | January 6, 2015 13:30 | January 6, 2015 23:00 | 9h 30m | 1,488 | 551 |
| 10 | September 29, 2015 23:00 | September 30, 2015 02:30 | 3h 30m | 1,462 | 3,831 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 47 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 Wetzel 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2015 | 7.5 hrs | 1.85 | 7.5 hrs | 1.85 |
| City of New Martinsville - (WV) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,256 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. Wetzel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wetzel 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/wetzel-county