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2019 Berkeley County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Berkeley County, WV went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 2238th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Berkeley County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 24, 2019 21:30 | February 28, 2019 01:30 | 3d 4h | 3,685 | 51K |
| 2 | May 18, 2019 22:15 | May 19, 2019 01:30 | 3h 15m | 3,156 | 8,963 |
| 3 | April 20, 2019 00:15 | April 20, 2019 04:00 | 3h 45m | 2,040 | 2,064 |
| 4 | December 20, 2019 10:15 | December 20, 2019 11:30 | 1h 15m | 1,632 | 1,352 |
| 5 | November 28, 2019 02:45 | November 29, 2019 02:45 | 1d | 1,463 | 3,491 |
| 6 | December 15, 2019 14:45 | December 15, 2019 21:30 | 6h 45m | 1,357 | 2,743 |
| 7 | February 12, 2019 13:45 | February 15, 2019 16:00 | 3d 2h | 1,319 | 11K |
| 8 | September 7, 2019 20:00 | September 8, 2019 00:00 | 4h | 974 | 3,408 |
| 9 | January 1, 2019 23:00 | January 2, 2019 02:30 | 3h 30m | 897 | 277 |
| 10 | March 31, 2019 14:45 | March 31, 2019 17:15 | 2h 30m | 781 | 1,756 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 32 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Berkeley County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2018 | 5.1 hrs | 1.34 | 2.5 hrs | 1.08 |
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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 68,862 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. Berkeley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berkeley County, WV annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/west-virginia/berkeley-county