County annual report · FIPS 54003
2016 Berkeley County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Berkeley County, WV went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 119K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1439th 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 Berkeley 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 | April 26, 2016 13:30 | April 26, 2016 18:30 | 5h | 7,716 | 9,638 |
| 2 | March 25, 2016 20:15 | March 26, 2016 03:30 | 7h 15m | 7,060 | 3,201 |
| 3 | May 11, 2016 14:00 | May 11, 2016 15:30 | 1h 30m | 4,634 | 2,323 |
| 4 | July 31, 2016 19:15 | August 1, 2016 04:30 | 9h 15m | 4,374 | 4,888 |
| 5 | December 6, 2016 06:30 | December 6, 2016 14:00 | 7h 30m | 3,136 | 11K |
| 6 | November 19, 2016 18:30 | November 20, 2016 06:45 | 12h 15m | 2,868 | 5,038 |
| 7 | November 29, 2016 02:00 | November 29, 2016 09:00 | 7h | 2,346 | 3,561 |
| 8 | February 25, 2016 06:30 | February 25, 2016 11:30 | 5h | 2,340 | 6,774 |
| 9 | June 26, 2016 08:00 | June 26, 2016 11:15 | 3h 15m | 2,340 | 2,941 |
| 10 | July 22, 2016 14:15 | July 22, 2016 15:15 | 1h | 2,338 | 2,338 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 75 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Berkeley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 1.17 | 2.2 hrs | 1.05 |
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 ÷ 68,862 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. Berkeley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berkeley 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/berkeley-county