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2016 Wetzel County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wetzel County, WV went without power for an average of 16.4 hours, a total of 151K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.2 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 188th 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 Wetzel 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 | August 10, 2016 12:30 | August 10, 2016 17:30 | 5h | 2,958 | 4,746 |
| 2 | February 6, 2016 00:00 | February 6, 2016 02:30 | 2h 30m | 2,936 | 3,028 |
| 3 | June 8, 2016 12:15 | June 8, 2016 18:45 | 6h 30m | 2,860 | 5,809 |
| 4 | August 16, 2016 20:30 | August 17, 2016 23:00 | 1d 2h | 2,858 | 11K |
| 5 | April 2, 2016 18:00 | April 4, 2016 05:00 | 1d 11h | 2,162 | 14K |
| 6 | September 10, 2016 12:15 | September 10, 2016 14:30 | 2h 15m | 1,844 | 4,149 |
| 7 | September 11, 2016 19:15 | September 11, 2016 21:30 | 2h 15m | 1,844 | 4,149 |
| 8 | February 24, 2016 18:30 | February 25, 2016 13:45 | 19h 15m | 1,778 | 10K |
| 9 | August 20, 2016 06:30 | August 20, 2016 11:15 | 4h 45m | 1,764 | 7,459 |
| 10 | June 27, 2016 08:45 | June 27, 2016 13:30 | 4h 45m | 1,760 | 4,559 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 66 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 Wetzel 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2016 | 8.5 hrs | 2.42 | 7.6 hrs | 2.31 |
| City of New Martinsville - (WV) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,256 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. Wetzel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wetzel 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/wetzel-county