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County annual report · FIPS 54001

2017 Barbour County, WV Power Outage Report

In 2017, customers in Barbour County, WV went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 97K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 496th of 2,786 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
11.0
8,857 customers
Customer-hours out
97K
Peak customers out
2,290
Outages ≥1,000 out
3
0 of 10,000+ · 268 total
Longest outage
2d 10h
began March 1, 2017
Rank in state
42nd/55
496th of 2,786 US

Compared with WV, the US and 2016

Barbour County, WV average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2017Barbour County 11.0 hours, West Virginia average 16.4 hours, US average 7.4 hours, Barbour County, 2016 27.2 hoursBarbour CountyBarbour County11.0hWest Virginia averageWest Virginia average16.4hUS averageUS average7.4hBarbour County, 2016Barbour County, 201627.2h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2017; last bar is this county in 2016.

Month by month

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Barbour County, WV customer-hours without power by month, 2017Jan 1,512, Feb 6,776, Mar 26K, Apr 7,595, May 11K, Jun 9,991, Jul 14K, Aug 11K, Sep 2,383, Oct 4,507, Nov 2,431, Dec 5010k20k30k1,512Jan6,776Feb26KMar7,595Apr11KMay9,991Jun14KJul11KAug2,383Sep4,507Oct2,431Nov5Dec
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Customer-hours; March was the worst month.

Barbour County year over year

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Barbour County, WV: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 25.3h; 2016: 27.2h; 2017: 11.0h; 2018: 8.4h, coverage 100%; 2019: 9.1h, coverage 100%; 2020: 8.9h, coverage 100%; 2021: 9.2h, coverage 97%; 2022: 13.2h, coverage 100%; 2023: 9.7h; 2024: 14.0h; 2025: 18.2h01020300%50%100%25.3h201527.2h201611.0h20178.4h20189.1h20198.9h20209.2h202113.2h20229.7h202314.0h202418.2h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Barbour County, 2017

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1March 1, 2017 16:15March 4, 2017 02:152d 10h2,29025K
2June 23, 2017 10:30June 23, 2017 17:156h 45m1,2343,405
3May 1, 2017 13:30May 3, 2017 23:152d 9h1,0087,871
4February 10, 2017 18:30February 11, 2017 00:456h 15m9843,154
5June 21, 2017 13:15June 21, 2017 17:154h9662,562
6July 29, 2017 07:00July 30, 2017 16:151d 9h8427,340
7April 10, 2017 16:30April 10, 2017 23:457h 15m716235
8August 4, 2017 18:30August 5, 2017 20:151d 1h7006,095
9June 23, 2017 20:00June 24, 2017 20:151d6442,309
10July 21, 2017 18:00July 21, 2017 22:304h 30m6322,502

Outage episodes by size in 2017: 33 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Barbour County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Monongahela Power Co20179.3 hrs2.206.3 hrs1.88
Harrison Rural Elec Assn, Inc-----
Philippi Municipal Electric-----

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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
  • Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,857 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. Barbour County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barbour County, WV annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/west-virginia/barbour-county

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