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2016 Upshur County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Upshur County, WV went without power for an average of 19.2 hours, a total of 277K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 153rd 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 Upshur 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 19:45 | June 19, 2016 22:00 | 3d 2h | 7,118 | 72K |
| 2 | June 7, 2016 12:15 | June 7, 2016 18:45 | 6h 30m | 5,026 | 28K |
| 3 | February 24, 2016 16:00 | February 25, 2016 21:15 | 1d 5h | 2,994 | 11K |
| 4 | October 21, 2016 11:15 | October 23, 2016 00:45 | 1d 13h | 2,490 | 13K |
| 5 | December 3, 2016 21:15 | December 4, 2016 04:15 | 7h | 2,362 | 10K |
| 6 | October 18, 2016 15:00 | October 18, 2016 16:30 | 1h 30m | 2,352 | 3,526 |
| 7 | January 13, 2016 00:00 | January 13, 2016 08:00 | 8h | 2,238 | 15K |
| 8 | December 27, 2016 14:45 | December 27, 2016 23:45 | 9h | 2,116 | 1,652 |
| 9 | June 27, 2016 19:30 | June 28, 2016 07:15 | 11h 45m | 2,102 | 1,045 |
| 10 | March 2, 2016 03:00 | March 2, 2016 07:45 | 4h 45m | 2,090 | 4,750 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 76 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Upshur 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 |
| Harrison Rural Elec Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 14,393 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. Upshur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Upshur 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/upshur-county