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2018 Preston County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Preston County, WV went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 77K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1241st 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 Preston 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 | September 9, 2018 06:00 | September 12, 2018 01:00 | 2d 19h | 2,156 | 14K |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 02:00 | March 5, 2018 23:30 | 3d 21h | 1,521 | 7,138 |
| 3 | February 16, 2018 16:15 | February 17, 2018 03:45 | 11h 30m | 831 | 2,901 |
| 4 | June 11, 2018 02:30 | June 11, 2018 13:15 | 10h 45m | 809 | 1,598 |
| 5 | May 23, 2018 06:45 | May 23, 2018 13:00 | 6h 15m | 805 | 3,901 |
| 6 | June 22, 2018 18:15 | June 23, 2018 06:00 | 11h 45m | 758 | 3,633 |
| 7 | June 28, 2018 21:45 | June 29, 2018 02:00 | 4h 15m | 750 | 1,031 |
| 8 | April 1, 2018 02:30 | April 1, 2018 09:15 | 6h 45m | 722 | 3,210 |
| 9 | September 12, 2018 12:15 | September 12, 2018 21:00 | 8h 45m | 665 | 1,484 |
| 10 | July 27, 2018 20:15 | July 28, 2018 00:30 | 4h 15m | 619 | 1,159 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 41 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 Preston 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 ÷ 18,977 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. Preston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Preston 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/preston-county