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2017 Jefferson County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Jefferson County, WV went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1334th 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 Jefferson 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 | October 15, 2017 07:45 | October 15, 2017 16:15 | 8h 30m | 4,448 | 10K |
| 2 | August 18, 2017 03:00 | August 18, 2017 17:45 | 14h 45m | 3,890 | 5,466 |
| 3 | March 25, 2017 18:30 | March 25, 2017 20:45 | 2h 15m | 3,588 | 4,491 |
| 4 | April 21, 2017 18:30 | April 21, 2017 20:45 | 2h 15m | 3,582 | 3,591 |
| 5 | October 26, 2017 16:30 | October 26, 2017 18:15 | 1h 45m | 2,462 | 2,466 |
| 6 | March 15, 2017 20:00 | March 15, 2017 21:45 | 1h 45m | 2,028 | 1,025 |
| 7 | October 3, 2017 20:45 | October 3, 2017 22:00 | 1h 15m | 1,870 | 1,308 |
| 8 | January 23, 2017 07:00 | January 24, 2017 04:00 | 21h | 1,396 | 2,116 |
| 9 | June 6, 2017 00:00 | June 6, 2017 00:30 | 30m | 1,396 | 698 |
| 10 | February 13, 2017 01:30 | February 14, 2017 18:00 | 1d 16h | 1,112 | 7,024 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 62 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Jefferson 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 ÷ 30,664 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county