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2018 Berkeley County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Berkeley County, WV went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 90K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 2187th 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 Berkeley 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 | March 2, 2018 03:30 | March 5, 2018 03:30 | 3d | 4,465 | 37K |
| 2 | December 21, 2018 14:45 | December 21, 2018 17:00 | 2h 15m | 3,799 | 1,917 |
| 3 | May 31, 2018 19:45 | June 1, 2018 05:30 | 9h 45m | 3,345 | 2,355 |
| 4 | May 14, 2018 18:30 | May 15, 2018 23:30 | 1d 5h | 2,978 | 10K |
| 5 | May 21, 2018 16:45 | May 21, 2018 19:45 | 3h | 1,499 | 762 |
| 6 | March 12, 2018 16:15 | March 12, 2018 16:45 | 30m | 1,202 | 302 |
| 7 | August 23, 2018 01:30 | August 23, 2018 08:45 | 7h 15m | 1,192 | 1,356 |
| 8 | October 27, 2018 09:00 | October 27, 2018 11:00 | 2h | 1,139 | 1,427 |
| 9 | July 4, 2018 19:15 | July 5, 2018 17:45 | 22h 30m | 1,071 | 3,546 |
| 10 | December 19, 2018 00:45 | December 19, 2018 03:00 | 2h 15m | 968 | 1,612 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 39 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Berkeley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2018 | 5.1 hrs | 1.34 | 2.5 hrs | 1.08 |
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 ÷ 68,862 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. Berkeley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berkeley 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/berkeley-county