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2018 Grant County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Grant County, WV went without power for an average of 8.7 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 650th 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 Grant 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 | April 2, 2018 09:30 | April 2, 2018 20:00 | 10h 30m | 2,079 | 4,058 |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 02:30 | March 5, 2018 03:00 | 3d | 1,474 | 14K |
| 3 | March 28, 2018 07:45 | March 28, 2018 11:30 | 3h 45m | 1,030 | 3,427 |
| 4 | April 4, 2018 15:45 | April 5, 2018 13:30 | 21h 45m | 976 | 958 |
| 5 | March 28, 2018 13:30 | March 28, 2018 18:15 | 4h 45m | 901 | 2,708 |
| 6 | December 2, 2018 14:45 | December 2, 2018 23:45 | 9h | 898 | 2,493 |
| 7 | September 15, 2018 13:30 | September 15, 2018 17:45 | 4h 15m | 848 | 2,289 |
| 8 | November 15, 2018 14:45 | November 18, 2018 17:15 | 3d 2h | 538 | 7,426 |
| 9 | June 27, 2018 16:30 | June 27, 2018 19:00 | 2h 30m | 485 | 1,213 |
| 10 | May 28, 2018 11:30 | May 28, 2018 14:45 | 3h 15m | 260 | 539 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 21 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 Grant 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 |
| 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 ÷ 5,906 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. Grant County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grant 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/grant-county