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2018 Barbour County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Barbour County, WV went without power for an average of 8.4 hours, a total of 75K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 661st of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barbour County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 14, 2018 20:30 | May 16, 2018 11:15 | 1d 14h | 2,462 | 27K |
| 2 | April 13, 2018 19:45 | April 14, 2018 12:00 | 16h 15m | 1,446 | 9,437 |
| 3 | December 27, 2018 14:15 | December 27, 2018 16:45 | 2h 30m | 1,433 | 3,582 |
| 4 | April 4, 2018 13:00 | April 5, 2018 01:30 | 12h 30m | 1,148 | 8,786 |
| 5 | June 27, 2018 22:15 | June 29, 2018 00:15 | 1d 2h | 800 | 5,054 |
| 6 | October 17, 2018 12:45 | October 17, 2018 16:00 | 3h 15m | 338 | 1,099 |
| 7 | September 10, 2018 22:45 | September 11, 2018 01:15 | 2h 30m | 336 | 725 |
| 8 | October 8, 2018 17:15 | October 8, 2018 19:00 | 1h 45m | 292 | 511 |
| 9 | May 1, 2018 18:30 | May 2, 2018 00:30 | 6h | 258 | 214 |
| 10 | July 21, 2018 23:45 | July 22, 2018 06:45 | 7h | 255 | 1,124 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 24 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Barbour County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 8.7 hrs | 2.50 | 7.1 hrs | 2.32 |
| Harrison Rural Elec Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Philippi Municipal Electric | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 100% of West Virginia's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,857 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. Barbour County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barbour County, WV annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/west-virginia/barbour-county