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2018 Hardy County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Hardy County, WV went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 100K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 472nd 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 Hardy 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 04:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 20h | 3,310 | 52K |
| 2 | March 24, 2018 03:00 | March 24, 2018 06:15 | 3h 15m | 2,224 | 4,553 |
| 3 | November 8, 2018 17:30 | November 8, 2018 21:30 | 4h | 1,456 | 379 |
| 4 | November 7, 2018 13:00 | November 7, 2018 14:15 | 1h 15m | 1,025 | 918 |
| 5 | November 28, 2018 17:30 | November 29, 2018 00:15 | 6h 45m | 845 | 2,010 |
| 6 | September 11, 2018 19:30 | September 11, 2018 21:45 | 2h 15m | 795 | 1,787 |
| 7 | March 25, 2018 02:00 | March 25, 2018 05:30 | 3h 30m | 793 | 1,198 |
| 8 | November 8, 2018 13:15 | November 8, 2018 13:30 | 15m | 768 | 192 |
| 9 | June 3, 2018 10:30 | June 3, 2018 23:15 | 12h 45m | 722 | 1,787 |
| 10 | July 5, 2018 20:00 | July 5, 2018 23:00 | 3h | 641 | 1,472 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 38 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 Hardy 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 ÷ 8,586 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. Hardy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardy 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/hardy-county