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2018 Taylor County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Taylor County, WV went without power for an average of 8.4 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 666th 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 Taylor 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 | October 20, 2018 23:30 | October 22, 2018 02:15 | 1d 2h | 1,664 | 9,523 |
| 2 | July 4, 2018 22:45 | July 6, 2018 02:30 | 1d 3h | 1,571 | 6,450 |
| 3 | October 24, 2018 18:15 | October 24, 2018 18:30 | 15m | 1,412 | 353 |
| 4 | March 30, 2018 01:15 | March 30, 2018 05:45 | 4h 30m | 857 | 3,639 |
| 5 | March 30, 2018 06:30 | March 30, 2018 11:15 | 4h 45m | 857 | 446 |
| 6 | October 23, 2018 20:15 | October 24, 2018 02:30 | 6h 15m | 757 | 4,497 |
| 7 | August 13, 2018 16:30 | August 15, 2018 01:00 | 1d 8h | 747 | 10K |
| 8 | March 2, 2018 01:30 | March 4, 2018 03:00 | 2d 1h | 654 | 7,052 |
| 9 | May 14, 2018 20:15 | May 16, 2018 11:15 | 1d 15h | 565 | 8,239 |
| 10 | December 25, 2018 04:15 | December 25, 2018 09:00 | 4h 45m | 428 | 1,614 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 27 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Taylor 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 |
| 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 ÷ 8,762 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. Taylor County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Taylor 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/taylor-county