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2016 Pendleton County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pendleton County, WV went without power for an average of 40.2 hours, a total of 129K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 70th 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 Pendleton 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 | October 17, 2016 13:00 | October 17, 2016 18:30 | 5h 30m | 2,886 | 15K |
| 2 | February 16, 2016 12:00 | February 19, 2016 01:00 | 2d 13h | 2,244 | 23K |
| 3 | January 20, 2016 17:15 | January 20, 2016 19:30 | 2h 15m | 1,808 | 2,713 |
| 4 | July 28, 2016 13:30 | July 28, 2016 16:15 | 2h 45m | 1,774 | 4,879 |
| 5 | February 2, 2016 19:15 | February 2, 2016 19:45 | 30m | 1,696 | 848 |
| 6 | June 8, 2016 13:15 | June 8, 2016 15:00 | 1h 45m | 1,630 | 2,039 |
| 7 | July 29, 2016 19:15 | July 30, 2016 02:15 | 7h | 1,582 | 9,148 |
| 8 | April 3, 2016 03:00 | April 4, 2016 10:00 | 1d 7h | 1,522 | 16K |
| 9 | July 26, 2016 13:15 | July 26, 2016 17:30 | 4h 15m | 1,492 | 6,184 |
| 10 | July 6, 2016 09:15 | July 6, 2016 14:30 | 5h 15m | 1,488 | 5,818 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 37 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Pendleton 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 |
| 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 ÷ 3,221 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. Pendleton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pendleton 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/pendleton-county