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2016 Gilmer County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Gilmer County, WV went without power for an average of 17.7 hours, a total of 81K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 171st 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 Gilmer 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 3, 2016 21:15 | May 3, 2016 22:45 | 1h 30m | 2,336 | 1,758 |
| 2 | October 21, 2016 08:30 | October 21, 2016 16:00 | 7h 30m | 1,860 | 4,925 |
| 3 | August 12, 2016 10:30 | August 12, 2016 12:00 | 1h 30m | 1,518 | 2,277 |
| 4 | October 23, 2016 05:00 | October 23, 2016 07:45 | 2h 45m | 1,352 | 3,541 |
| 5 | October 25, 2016 14:45 | October 25, 2016 19:45 | 5h | 1,212 | 1,453 |
| 6 | October 23, 2016 08:30 | October 23, 2016 12:00 | 3h 30m | 1,210 | 753 |
| 7 | July 28, 2016 22:00 | July 29, 2016 15:45 | 17h 45m | 1,154 | 4,791 |
| 8 | August 12, 2016 12:45 | August 12, 2016 13:00 | 15m | 1,088 | 272 |
| 9 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 26, 2016 17:30 | 3d 6h | 880 | 14K |
| 10 | March 2, 2016 00:15 | March 2, 2016 02:30 | 2h 15m | 504 | 1,129 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 48 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Gilmer 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 |
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 ÷ 4,601 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. Gilmer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gilmer 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/gilmer-county