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2018 Jefferson County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Jefferson County, WV went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 121K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1265th 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 Jefferson 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 14, 2018 20:45 | May 16, 2018 11:15 | 1d 14h | 3,732 | 48K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 02:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 22h | 2,465 | 31K |
| 3 | June 19, 2018 08:45 | June 19, 2018 10:00 | 1h 15m | 1,927 | 1,936 |
| 4 | July 24, 2018 13:30 | July 24, 2018 15:15 | 1h 45m | 1,775 | 450 |
| 5 | September 13, 2018 11:30 | September 14, 2018 00:15 | 12h 45m | 1,249 | 1,333 |
| 6 | September 22, 2018 14:45 | September 22, 2018 17:00 | 2h 15m | 1,129 | 854 |
| 7 | April 25, 2018 11:15 | April 25, 2018 12:30 | 1h 15m | 1,036 | 1,295 |
| 8 | April 2, 2018 08:30 | April 2, 2018 11:00 | 2h 30m | 1,032 | 2,580 |
| 9 | January 17, 2018 15:00 | January 17, 2018 16:45 | 1h 45m | 992 | 1,733 |
| 10 | August 17, 2018 20:15 | August 18, 2018 05:15 | 9h | 942 | 1,493 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 38 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Jefferson 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 ÷ 30,664 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county