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2017 Preston County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Preston County, WV went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 233K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 441st 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 Preston 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 | June 18, 2017 19:30 | June 19, 2017 04:00 | 8h 30m | 6,498 | 14K |
| 2 | August 7, 2017 12:45 | August 7, 2017 14:15 | 1h 30m | 5,046 | 7,569 |
| 3 | August 13, 2017 12:15 | August 13, 2017 19:30 | 7h 15m | 5,046 | 20K |
| 4 | March 16, 2017 14:45 | March 16, 2017 15:00 | 15m | 3,568 | 892 |
| 5 | May 1, 2017 16:00 | May 3, 2017 19:30 | 2d 3h | 2,688 | 43K |
| 6 | September 13, 2017 13:30 | September 14, 2017 16:45 | 1d 3h | 2,638 | 6,212 |
| 7 | June 22, 2017 11:00 | June 22, 2017 14:45 | 3h 45m | 2,628 | 904 |
| 8 | August 3, 2017 10:15 | August 3, 2017 20:15 | 10h | 2,310 | 6,975 |
| 9 | July 28, 2017 23:15 | July 30, 2017 14:45 | 1d 15h | 1,814 | 16K |
| 10 | May 5, 2017 11:15 | May 5, 2017 12:30 | 1h 15m | 1,580 | 1,975 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 74 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Preston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monongahela Power Co | 2017 | 9.3 hrs | 2.20 | 6.3 hrs | 1.88 |
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 ÷ 18,977 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. Preston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Preston 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/preston-county