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2018 Upshur County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Upshur County, WV went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 907th 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 Upshur 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 | July 11, 2018 17:30 | July 12, 2018 00:15 | 6h 45m | 2,535 | 5,718 |
| 2 | February 25, 2018 10:15 | February 26, 2018 02:00 | 15h 45m | 1,938 | 5,380 |
| 3 | August 7, 2018 12:30 | August 7, 2018 16:45 | 4h 15m | 1,928 | 2,918 |
| 4 | May 14, 2018 20:45 | May 16, 2018 11:15 | 1d 14h | 1,693 | 7,390 |
| 5 | November 6, 2018 02:00 | November 7, 2018 02:45 | 1d | 1,089 | 1,945 |
| 6 | November 22, 2018 11:30 | November 22, 2018 15:45 | 4h 15m | 984 | 2,219 |
| 7 | October 17, 2018 12:30 | October 17, 2018 18:15 | 5h 45m | 979 | 3,182 |
| 8 | March 21, 2018 10:15 | March 22, 2018 11:15 | 1d 1h | 953 | 2,513 |
| 9 | September 9, 2018 23:00 | September 11, 2018 07:30 | 1d 8h | 949 | 2,086 |
| 10 | July 31, 2018 17:45 | July 31, 2018 19:15 | 1h 30m | 896 | 898 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 40 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Upshur 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 ÷ 14,393 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. Upshur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Upshur 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/upshur-county