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2017 Berkeley County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Berkeley County, WV went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 115K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1762nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Berkeley County, 2017
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 22, 2017 14:30 | July 23, 2017 06:00 | 15h 30m | 4,818 | 11K |
| 2 | February 13, 2017 03:00 | February 14, 2017 23:15 | 1d 20h | 4,262 | 22K |
| 3 | April 12, 2017 14:15 | April 12, 2017 23:45 | 9h 30m | 3,088 | 7,043 |
| 4 | July 29, 2017 01:00 | July 29, 2017 16:30 | 15h 30m | 2,984 | 12K |
| 5 | August 7, 2017 14:30 | August 7, 2017 15:45 | 1h 15m | 2,772 | 2,083 |
| 6 | April 29, 2017 12:00 | April 29, 2017 13:45 | 1h 45m | 2,626 | 3,120 |
| 7 | April 14, 2017 07:45 | April 14, 2017 08:15 | 30m | 2,372 | 1,186 |
| 8 | April 21, 2017 14:45 | April 21, 2017 18:15 | 3h 30m | 1,970 | 1,834 |
| 9 | May 2, 2017 01:30 | May 2, 2017 02:30 | 1h | 1,964 | 1,626 |
| 10 | March 17, 2017 09:15 | March 17, 2017 10:15 | 1h | 1,904 | 1,904 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 55 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 Berkeley County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 1.01 | 2.3 hrs | 0.99 |
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 ÷ 68,862 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. Berkeley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berkeley 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/berkeley-county