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2019 Pocahontas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Pocahontas County, WV went without power for an average of 26.5 hours, a total of 122K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 144th 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 Pocahontas 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 | January 19, 2019 18:15 | January 20, 2019 11:30 | 17h 15m | 6,087 | 8,050 |
| 2 | February 24, 2019 11:30 | March 1, 2019 02:45 | 4d 15h | 2,446 | 63K |
| 3 | September 27, 2019 21:15 | September 28, 2019 01:45 | 4h 30m | 1,300 | 5,198 |
| 4 | July 17, 2019 12:45 | July 17, 2019 17:00 | 4h 15m | 1,298 | 5,498 |
| 5 | February 13, 2019 17:15 | February 13, 2019 19:45 | 2h 30m | 1,295 | 1,945 |
| 6 | April 18, 2019 20:15 | April 18, 2019 23:30 | 3h 15m | 1,294 | 3,209 |
| 7 | August 1, 2019 02:15 | August 1, 2019 05:00 | 2h 45m | 1,158 | 3,185 |
| 8 | August 6, 2019 16:45 | August 6, 2019 18:30 | 1h 45m | 456 | 798 |
| 9 | May 17, 2019 12:00 | May 17, 2019 20:30 | 8h 30m | 349 | 633 |
| 10 | May 25, 2019 21:30 | May 26, 2019 05:30 | 8h | 337 | 1,319 |
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 Pocahontas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,599 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. Pocahontas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pocahontas 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/pocahontas-county