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2016 Barbour County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Barbour County, WV went without power for an average of 27.2 hours, a total of 241K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 110th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barbour County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 14, 2016 10:15 | May 14, 2016 12:45 | 2h 30m | 5,376 | 13K |
| 2 | March 19, 2016 10:15 | March 19, 2016 11:45 | 1h 30m | 5,348 | 8,022 |
| 3 | March 16, 2016 08:15 | March 16, 2016 11:45 | 3h 30m | 5,344 | 16K |
| 4 | November 11, 2016 14:15 | November 11, 2016 19:00 | 4h 45m | 4,610 | 22K |
| 5 | June 16, 2016 21:45 | June 19, 2016 16:15 | 2d 18h | 4,010 | 76K |
| 6 | December 18, 2016 08:45 | December 19, 2016 16:45 | 1d 8h | 2,096 | 13K |
| 7 | September 16, 2016 13:30 | September 17, 2016 02:00 | 12h 30m | 1,750 | 1,220 |
| 8 | June 22, 2016 02:45 | June 22, 2016 21:30 | 18h 45m | 1,288 | 5,218 |
| 9 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 25, 2016 12:45 | 2d 2h | 1,166 | 4,854 |
| 10 | January 26, 2016 12:00 | January 26, 2016 15:30 | 3h 30m | 1,026 | 2,054 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 53 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Barbour County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 10.8 hrs | 2.16 | 6.1 hrs | 1.92 |
| Harrison Rural Elec Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Philippi Municipal Electric | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,857 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. Barbour County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barbour County, WV annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/west-virginia/barbour-county