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2018 Wirt County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wirt County, WV went without power for an average of 21.8 hours, a total of 61K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.4 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 257th 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 Wirt 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 31, 2018 11:30 | August 31, 2018 17:00 | 5h 30m | 2,347 | 12K |
| 2 | May 26, 2018 23:00 | May 27, 2018 00:45 | 1h 45m | 1,099 | 1,922 |
| 3 | June 22, 2018 00:15 | June 22, 2018 19:15 | 19h | 936 | 4,136 |
| 4 | August 21, 2018 16:15 | August 22, 2018 00:45 | 8h 30m | 915 | 3,471 |
| 5 | March 2, 2018 00:00 | March 4, 2018 04:15 | 2d 4h | 506 | 8,494 |
| 6 | September 9, 2018 11:00 | September 11, 2018 06:15 | 1d 19h | 493 | 4,203 |
| 7 | July 26, 2018 18:45 | July 27, 2018 01:15 | 6h 30m | 278 | 1,047 |
| 8 | March 9, 2018 23:15 | March 10, 2018 01:45 | 2h 30m | 264 | 466 |
| 9 | July 15, 2018 17:15 | July 15, 2018 19:15 | 2h | 258 | 514 |
| 10 | October 13, 2018 19:45 | October 14, 2018 00:45 | 5h | 258 | 987 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 33 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 Wirt 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 ÷ 2,813 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. Wirt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wirt 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/wirt-county