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2019 Hardy County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Hardy County, WV went without power for an average of 16.6 hours, a total of 143K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 282nd 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 Hardy 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 19:45 | March 2, 2019 00:15 | 5d 4h | 2,275 | 100K |
| 2 | November 7, 2019 13:15 | November 7, 2019 15:00 | 1h 45m | 655 | 493 |
| 3 | May 22, 2019 15:00 | May 22, 2019 16:00 | 1h | 634 | 479 |
| 4 | November 27, 2019 23:15 | November 28, 2019 22:30 | 23h 15m | 573 | 3,394 |
| 5 | January 30, 2019 14:30 | January 30, 2019 15:45 | 1h 15m | 535 | 669 |
| 6 | April 15, 2019 03:15 | April 16, 2019 00:15 | 21h | 522 | 3,041 |
| 7 | September 30, 2019 11:30 | September 30, 2019 16:15 | 4h 45m | 457 | 1,167 |
| 8 | July 21, 2019 22:15 | July 24, 2019 22:30 | 3d | 422 | 3,456 |
| 9 | August 27, 2019 23:30 | August 28, 2019 03:15 | 3h 45m | 389 | 1,383 |
| 10 | August 23, 2019 00:30 | August 23, 2019 05:00 | 4h 30m | 366 | 1,647 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 41 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Hardy 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 ÷ 8,586 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. Hardy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardy 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/hardy-county