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2016 Jefferson County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Jefferson County, WV went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 106K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 892nd 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 Jefferson 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 01:15 | April 4, 2016 02:00 | 1d | 3,282 | 6,329 |
| 2 | June 12, 2016 16:15 | June 12, 2016 22:15 | 6h | 2,418 | 2,557 |
| 3 | April 1, 2016 21:00 | April 1, 2016 22:00 | 1h | 2,348 | 2,347 |
| 4 | April 7, 2016 13:45 | April 7, 2016 16:30 | 2h 45m | 1,970 | 3,978 |
| 5 | February 3, 2016 05:15 | February 3, 2016 08:15 | 3h | 1,770 | 3,119 |
| 6 | October 13, 2016 06:15 | October 13, 2016 14:15 | 8h | 1,654 | 11K |
| 7 | April 19, 2016 11:45 | April 19, 2016 14:45 | 3h | 1,498 | 762 |
| 8 | July 31, 2016 19:30 | August 1, 2016 03:00 | 7h 30m | 1,410 | 840 |
| 9 | December 29, 2016 19:45 | December 30, 2016 03:30 | 7h 45m | 1,374 | 3,540 |
| 10 | September 29, 2016 19:45 | September 30, 2016 15:45 | 20h | 1,360 | 2,497 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 69 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Jefferson 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 ÷ 30,664 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county