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2016 Hampshire County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hampshire County, WV went without power for an average of 12.9 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 263rd 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 Hampshire 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 3, 2016 00:45 | April 3, 2016 20:30 | 19h 45m | 4,624 | 19K |
| 2 | August 15, 2016 19:00 | August 16, 2016 18:45 | 23h 45m | 4,476 | 5,978 |
| 3 | February 16, 2016 13:00 | February 17, 2016 17:15 | 1d 4h | 3,844 | 21K |
| 4 | November 29, 2016 02:00 | November 29, 2016 09:45 | 7h 45m | 3,458 | 12K |
| 5 | September 28, 2016 13:15 | September 28, 2016 15:00 | 1h 45m | 3,278 | 4,919 |
| 6 | March 28, 2016 19:30 | March 28, 2016 22:30 | 3h | 2,654 | 2,841 |
| 7 | November 29, 2016 11:45 | November 29, 2016 13:30 | 1h 45m | 2,650 | 2,652 |
| 8 | November 22, 2016 17:45 | November 22, 2016 22:30 | 4h 45m | 2,292 | 2,830 |
| 9 | December 17, 2016 16:45 | December 18, 2016 00:30 | 7h 45m | 2,280 | 3,210 |
| 10 | July 7, 2016 10:45 | July 7, 2016 15:00 | 4h 15m | 1,350 | 2,009 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 73 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Hampshire 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 ÷ 11,760 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. Hampshire County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hampshire 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/hampshire-county