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2017 Hardy County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hardy County, WV went without power for an average of 14.2 hours, a total of 122K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 390th 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 Hardy 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 18, 2017 22:45 | July 18, 2017 23:00 | 15m | 4,476 | 1,119 |
| 2 | July 13, 2017 13:15 | July 13, 2017 14:45 | 1h 30m | 4,470 | 6,705 |
| 3 | October 16, 2017 19:45 | October 16, 2017 21:00 | 1h 15m | 4,466 | 3,352 |
| 4 | October 3, 2017 13:15 | October 3, 2017 16:45 | 3h 30m | 4,464 | 4,484 |
| 5 | August 18, 2017 13:15 | August 18, 2017 16:00 | 2h 45m | 2,884 | 6,544 |
| 6 | May 12, 2017 14:00 | May 12, 2017 19:15 | 5h 15m | 2,872 | 15K |
| 7 | March 14, 2017 08:15 | March 14, 2017 18:15 | 10h | 2,754 | 15K |
| 8 | March 1, 2017 17:15 | March 2, 2017 02:45 | 9h 30m | 1,828 | 8,163 |
| 9 | October 30, 2017 05:45 | October 30, 2017 18:45 | 13h | 1,320 | 2,197 |
| 10 | August 23, 2017 03:15 | August 23, 2017 11:45 | 8h 30m | 1,132 | 6,722 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 48 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Hardy 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 ÷ 8,586 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. Hardy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardy 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/hardy-county