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County annual report · FIPS 54049

2018 Marion County, WV Power Outage Report

In 2018, customers in Marion County, WV went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 171K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1029th of 2,798 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
5.1
33,284 customers
Customer-hours out
171K
Peak customers out
2,434
Outages ≥1,000 out
11
0 of 10,000+ · 555 total
Longest outage
2d 16h
began September 9, 2018
Rank in state
48th/55
1029th of 2,798 US

Compared with WV, the US and 2017

Marion County, WV average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2018Marion County 5.1 hours, West Virginia average 13.4 hours, US average 5.6 hours, Marion County, 2017 16.4 hoursMarion CountyMarion County5.1hWest Virginia averageWest Virginia average13.4hUS averageUS average5.6hMarion County, 2017Marion County, 201716.4h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2018; last bar is this county in 2017.

Month by month

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Marion County, WV customer-hours without power by month, 2018Jan 0, Feb 29K, Mar 15K, Apr 6,446, May 26K, Jun 16K, Jul 9,636, Aug 17K, Sep 25K, Oct 6,741, Nov 7,841, Dec 12K010k20k30k0Jan29KFeb15KMar6,446Apr26KMay16KJun9,636Jul17KAug25KSep6,741Oct7,841Nov12KDec
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Customer-hours; February was the worst month.

Marion County year over year

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Marion County, WV: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 16.3h; 2016: 9.2h; 2017: 16.4h; 2018: 5.1h, coverage 100%; 2019: 11.0h, coverage 100%; 2020: 8.2h, coverage 100%; 2021: 10.1h, coverage 97%; 2022: 6.8h, coverage 100%; 2023: 9.9h; 2024: 6.5h; 2025: 15.1h051015200%50%100%16.3h20159.2h201616.4h20175.1h201811.0h20198.2h202010.1h20216.8h20229.9h20236.5h202415.1h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Marion County, 2018

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1February 24, 2018 11:30February 25, 2018 00:0012h 30m2,43415K
2May 14, 2018 20:00May 16, 2018 11:151d 15h2,34620K
3September 30, 2018 11:15October 1, 2018 23:151d 12h2,0068,813
4April 19, 2018 13:15April 19, 2018 16:153h1,6643,212
5September 9, 2018 07:30September 12, 2018 00:002d 16h1,48512K
6July 8, 2018 18:30July 8, 2018 22:454h 15m1,443377
7December 25, 2018 04:15December 25, 2018 09:455h 30m1,3995,033
8December 24, 2018 16:30December 24, 2018 21:305h1,3633,476
9June 2, 2018 18:30June 3, 2018 20:001d 1h1,2845,379
10November 2, 2018 01:15November 2, 2018 22:0020h 45m1,2503,863

Outage episodes by size in 2018: 76 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Marion County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Monongahela Power Co20188.7 hrs2.507.1 hrs2.32
Harrison Rural Elec Assn, Inc-----

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 ÷ 33,284 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. Marion County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marion 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/marion-county

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