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2017 Taylor County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Taylor County, WV went without power for an average of 18.9 hours, a total of 166K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 287th 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 Taylor 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 | April 26, 2017 06:45 | April 26, 2017 16:15 | 9h 30m | 4,846 | 19K |
| 2 | July 29, 2017 00:15 | July 30, 2017 23:30 | 1d 23h | 4,080 | 40K |
| 3 | July 12, 2017 06:15 | July 12, 2017 16:00 | 9h 45m | 2,552 | 2,975 |
| 4 | January 31, 2017 17:00 | January 31, 2017 19:30 | 2h 30m | 2,266 | 3,659 |
| 5 | July 10, 2017 23:45 | July 12, 2017 02:45 | 1d 3h | 2,082 | 6,542 |
| 6 | May 1, 2017 14:30 | May 3, 2017 23:30 | 2d 9h | 1,646 | 14K |
| 7 | July 7, 2017 21:15 | July 9, 2017 19:15 | 1d 22h | 1,640 | 12K |
| 8 | February 10, 2017 19:30 | February 11, 2017 00:45 | 5h 15m | 1,584 | 3,177 |
| 9 | April 17, 2017 11:45 | April 17, 2017 18:15 | 6h 30m | 1,534 | 6,679 |
| 10 | October 17, 2017 11:00 | October 17, 2017 20:45 | 9h 45m | 1,518 | 8,539 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 53 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 Taylor 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 |
| Harrison Rural Elec Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,762 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. Taylor County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Taylor 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/taylor-county