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2018 Pocahontas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pocahontas County, WV went without power for an average of 23.3 hours, a total of 107K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 244th 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 Pocahontas 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 | November 15, 2018 16:30 | November 18, 2018 17:15 | 3d | 2,189 | 33K |
| 2 | October 3, 2018 01:45 | October 3, 2018 03:45 | 2h | 2,095 | 3,895 |
| 3 | February 17, 2018 21:15 | February 18, 2018 17:15 | 20h | 1,578 | 14K |
| 4 | August 8, 2018 14:30 | August 8, 2018 18:45 | 4h 15m | 1,292 | 5,490 |
| 5 | August 11, 2018 20:30 | August 12, 2018 02:45 | 6h 15m | 1,291 | 8,025 |
| 6 | June 14, 2018 13:45 | June 14, 2018 16:45 | 3h | 1,286 | 3,217 |
| 7 | June 4, 2018 12:15 | June 4, 2018 20:30 | 8h 15m | 1,220 | 2,958 |
| 8 | May 14, 2018 18:45 | May 16, 2018 11:15 | 1d 16h | 860 | 3,682 |
| 9 | March 21, 2018 06:00 | March 22, 2018 23:30 | 1d 17h | 843 | 3,473 |
| 10 | November 1, 2018 13:45 | November 1, 2018 18:15 | 4h 30m | 731 | 3,064 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 28 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Pocahontas 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 |
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 ÷ 4,599 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. Pocahontas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pocahontas 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/pocahontas-county