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2016 Hardy County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hardy County, WV went without power for an average of 19.2 hours, a total of 165K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 155th 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 Hardy 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 | February 16, 2016 12:00 | February 19, 2016 15:30 | 3d 3h | 3,406 | 81K |
| 2 | October 21, 2016 23:30 | October 22, 2016 23:15 | 23h 45m | 2,934 | 1,973 |
| 3 | November 20, 2016 16:15 | November 21, 2016 05:30 | 13h 15m | 1,756 | 6,531 |
| 4 | October 8, 2016 22:45 | October 9, 2016 04:15 | 5h 30m | 1,464 | 7,255 |
| 5 | July 9, 2016 23:00 | July 10, 2016 00:30 | 1h 30m | 1,378 | 394 |
| 6 | August 10, 2016 23:45 | August 11, 2016 06:45 | 7h | 1,300 | 7,552 |
| 7 | August 17, 2016 13:30 | August 17, 2016 22:30 | 9h | 1,268 | 1,953 |
| 8 | July 29, 2016 04:15 | July 29, 2016 18:45 | 14h 30m | 926 | 6,956 |
| 9 | March 22, 2016 12:45 | March 22, 2016 16:45 | 4h | 924 | 3,696 |
| 10 | July 17, 2016 01:30 | July 17, 2016 19:45 | 18h 15m | 820 | 3,636 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 55 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Hardy 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 ÷ 8,586 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. Hardy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardy 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/hardy-county