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2019 Jefferson County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Jefferson County, WV went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 128K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1290th 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 Jefferson 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 17:45 | February 28, 2019 01:45 | 3d 8h | 2,935 | 44K |
| 2 | July 8, 2019 05:00 | July 9, 2019 02:00 | 21h | 1,972 | 8,367 |
| 3 | October 22, 2019 06:15 | October 22, 2019 09:45 | 3h 30m | 1,972 | 5,683 |
| 4 | September 2, 2019 17:30 | September 3, 2019 06:45 | 13h 15m | 1,967 | 4,720 |
| 5 | January 22, 2019 00:00 | January 23, 2019 01:00 | 1d 1h | 1,965 | 14K |
| 6 | March 6, 2019 12:00 | March 6, 2019 14:30 | 2h 30m | 1,426 | 971 |
| 7 | July 17, 2019 20:30 | July 18, 2019 03:30 | 7h | 1,105 | 302 |
| 8 | September 8, 2019 16:15 | September 9, 2019 03:45 | 11h 30m | 1,100 | 1,756 |
| 9 | March 22, 2019 13:30 | March 22, 2019 20:30 | 7h | 702 | 1,255 |
| 10 | May 5, 2019 16:00 | May 6, 2019 05:15 | 13h 15m | 701 | 923 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 55 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Jefferson 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 ÷ 30,664 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county