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2016 Pocahontas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pocahontas County, WV went without power for an average of 73.2 hours, a total of 337K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 30th 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 Pocahontas 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 | July 1, 2016 02:30 | July 1, 2016 08:00 | 5h 30m | 5,136 | 13K |
| 2 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 27, 2016 22:15 | 4d 11h | 4,796 | 247K |
| 3 | November 30, 2016 11:45 | November 30, 2016 17:45 | 6h | 4,564 | 6,831 |
| 4 | July 25, 2016 21:30 | July 26, 2016 04:30 | 7h | 4,196 | 15K |
| 5 | July 29, 2016 13:30 | July 29, 2016 17:00 | 3h 30m | 2,786 | 9,180 |
| 6 | July 4, 2016 19:15 | July 5, 2016 01:15 | 6h | 2,564 | 2,831 |
| 7 | February 25, 2016 00:30 | February 25, 2016 13:30 | 13h | 2,522 | 4,220 |
| 8 | March 14, 2016 00:00 | March 14, 2016 03:45 | 3h 45m | 1,816 | 5,295 |
| 9 | August 2, 2016 11:00 | August 2, 2016 14:15 | 3h 15m | 1,036 | 1,149 |
| 10 | September 30, 2016 19:30 | October 1, 2016 03:15 | 7h 45m | 776 | 2,125 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 32 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Pocahontas 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 ÷ 4,599 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. Pocahontas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pocahontas 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/pocahontas-county