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2018 Braxton County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Braxton County, WV went without power for an average of 15.6 hours, a total of 112K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 353rd 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 Braxton 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 12, 2018 14:30 | May 13, 2018 14:30 | 1d | 1,711 | 12K |
| 2 | June 10, 2018 05:30 | June 10, 2018 06:30 | 1h | 1,703 | 1,703 |
| 3 | July 16, 2018 01:00 | July 17, 2018 13:30 | 1d 12h | 1,667 | 5,603 |
| 4 | May 14, 2018 20:45 | May 16, 2018 02:00 | 1d 5h | 963 | 2,318 |
| 5 | March 2, 2018 00:00 | March 4, 2018 15:15 | 2d 15h | 946 | 15K |
| 6 | March 21, 2018 11:15 | March 22, 2018 20:30 | 1d 9h | 893 | 3,191 |
| 7 | June 23, 2018 17:30 | June 23, 2018 23:00 | 5h 30m | 842 | 2,281 |
| 8 | October 24, 2018 09:45 | October 24, 2018 14:15 | 4h 30m | 840 | 2,323 |
| 9 | July 11, 2018 17:30 | July 11, 2018 19:45 | 2h 15m | 837 | 634 |
| 10 | June 24, 2018 05:15 | June 24, 2018 13:00 | 7h 45m | 707 | 1,362 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 65 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Braxton 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 |
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 ÷ 7,157 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. Braxton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Braxton 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/braxton-county