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2018 Pendleton County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pendleton County, WV went without power for an average of 42.7 hours, a total of 137K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 137th 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 Pendleton 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 21:30 | May 16, 2018 11:15 | 1d 13h | 2,708 | 80K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 03:00 | March 4, 2018 06:30 | 2d 3h | 1,730 | 18K |
| 3 | December 3, 2018 12:15 | December 3, 2018 22:00 | 9h 45m | 974 | 3,932 |
| 4 | September 26, 2018 12:00 | September 26, 2018 22:15 | 10h 15m | 944 | 6,601 |
| 5 | June 24, 2018 16:45 | June 24, 2018 20:15 | 3h 30m | 839 | 2,274 |
| 6 | July 21, 2018 01:00 | July 21, 2018 03:30 | 2h 30m | 838 | 2,095 |
| 7 | September 9, 2018 06:30 | September 10, 2018 18:15 | 1d 11h | 810 | 14K |
| 8 | June 5, 2018 22:15 | June 6, 2018 00:45 | 2h 30m | 334 | 609 |
| 9 | May 23, 2018 10:15 | May 23, 2018 14:45 | 4h 30m | 251 | 574 |
| 10 | June 6, 2018 16:00 | June 6, 2018 19:00 | 3h | 233 | 69 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 19 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 Pendleton 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 ÷ 3,221 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. Pendleton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pendleton 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/pendleton-county