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2018 Gilmer County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Gilmer County, WV went without power for an average of 13.1 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 426th 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 Gilmer 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 19, 2018 13:00 | May 19, 2018 17:00 | 4h | 2,560 | 9,633 |
| 2 | September 1, 2018 06:45 | September 1, 2018 10:15 | 3h 30m | 1,346 | 3,302 |
| 3 | March 7, 2018 16:45 | March 7, 2018 23:00 | 6h 15m | 674 | 539 |
| 4 | April 2, 2018 15:30 | April 2, 2018 18:15 | 2h 45m | 670 | 1,343 |
| 5 | June 2, 2018 20:45 | June 3, 2018 01:15 | 4h 30m | 669 | 1,368 |
| 6 | November 7, 2018 15:45 | November 7, 2018 19:15 | 3h 30m | 659 | 1,861 |
| 7 | February 28, 2018 14:00 | February 28, 2018 16:00 | 2h | 620 | 225 |
| 8 | June 29, 2018 06:00 | June 29, 2018 12:30 | 6h 30m | 595 | 1,330 |
| 9 | March 22, 2018 19:00 | March 22, 2018 21:45 | 2h 45m | 547 | 1,232 |
| 10 | September 29, 2018 17:30 | September 29, 2018 21:30 | 4h | 383 | 1,532 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 47 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Gilmer 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 ÷ 4,601 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. Gilmer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gilmer 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/gilmer-county