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2018 Wetzel County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wetzel County, WV went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 622nd 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 Wetzel 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 | August 8, 2018 21:45 | August 9, 2018 01:45 | 4h | 1,467 | 1,892 |
| 2 | March 30, 2018 10:30 | March 30, 2018 17:45 | 7h 15m | 1,426 | 5,717 |
| 3 | March 31, 2018 16:30 | March 31, 2018 20:15 | 3h 45m | 1,426 | 2,148 |
| 4 | August 7, 2018 13:15 | August 7, 2018 18:45 | 5h 30m | 1,409 | 7,387 |
| 5 | August 14, 2018 20:15 | August 14, 2018 23:45 | 3h 30m | 1,057 | 2,119 |
| 6 | June 23, 2018 09:45 | June 23, 2018 17:30 | 7h 45m | 979 | 3,641 |
| 7 | June 28, 2018 09:45 | June 29, 2018 05:00 | 19h 15m | 872 | 4,537 |
| 8 | June 23, 2018 18:15 | June 24, 2018 04:30 | 10h 15m | 759 | 921 |
| 9 | June 22, 2018 07:30 | June 23, 2018 00:45 | 17h 15m | 754 | 3,479 |
| 10 | August 31, 2018 20:45 | September 1, 2018 00:15 | 3h 30m | 576 | 717 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 42 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 Wetzel 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2018 | 12.4 hrs | 2.89 | 11.6 hrs | 2.80 |
| City of New Martinsville - (WV) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,256 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. Wetzel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wetzel 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/wetzel-county