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2017 Wetzel County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wetzel County, WV went without power for an average of 33.8 hours, a total of 313K customer-hours (West Virginia average 16.4 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 142nd 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 Wetzel 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 19, 2017 13:15 | July 19, 2017 16:00 | 2h 45m | 4,116 | 11K |
| 2 | July 7, 2017 20:45 | July 12, 2017 21:00 | 5d | 3,320 | 97K |
| 3 | June 18, 2017 22:45 | June 19, 2017 14:00 | 15h 15m | 2,632 | 7,439 |
| 4 | July 29, 2017 03:45 | July 31, 2017 15:15 | 2d 11h | 2,223 | 44K |
| 5 | August 4, 2017 13:45 | August 5, 2017 21:45 | 1d 8h | 1,895 | 43K |
| 6 | May 1, 2017 16:45 | May 3, 2017 23:15 | 2d 6h | 1,480 | 9,100 |
| 7 | February 25, 2017 15:45 | February 25, 2017 17:15 | 1h 30m | 1,386 | 2,079 |
| 8 | October 3, 2017 14:00 | October 3, 2017 16:00 | 2h | 1,140 | 2,280 |
| 9 | April 7, 2017 02:45 | April 7, 2017 10:15 | 7h 30m | 936 | 6,788 |
| 10 | August 2, 2017 19:30 | August 3, 2017 01:45 | 6h 15m | 840 | 1,941 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 49 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Wetzel 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2017 | 12.5 hrs | 2.64 | 11.5 hrs | 2.55 |
| City of New Martinsville - (WV) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,256 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. Wetzel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wetzel 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/wetzel-county