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2016 Preston County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Preston County, WV went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 179K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 374th 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 Preston 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 | June 16, 2016 18:15 | June 18, 2016 23:00 | 2d 4h | 3,526 | 33K |
| 2 | June 12, 2016 11:15 | June 12, 2016 21:15 | 10h | 3,008 | 17K |
| 3 | December 30, 2016 05:15 | December 30, 2016 15:30 | 10h 15m | 2,548 | 7,550 |
| 4 | August 5, 2016 07:15 | August 5, 2016 11:00 | 3h 45m | 2,528 | 4,156 |
| 5 | December 6, 2016 15:15 | December 7, 2016 03:45 | 12h 30m | 2,040 | 4,405 |
| 6 | April 2, 2016 18:30 | April 4, 2016 18:00 | 1d 23h | 1,904 | 16K |
| 7 | August 28, 2016 21:15 | August 29, 2016 01:00 | 3h 45m | 1,576 | 4,099 |
| 8 | August 13, 2016 19:15 | August 14, 2016 08:45 | 13h 30m | 1,566 | 9,011 |
| 9 | August 6, 2016 10:45 | August 6, 2016 14:30 | 3h 45m | 1,482 | 3,557 |
| 10 | August 5, 2016 13:45 | August 5, 2016 20:30 | 6h 45m | 1,448 | 9,716 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 61 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 Preston 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 ÷ 18,977 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. Preston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Preston 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/preston-county