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2019 Wetzel County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wetzel County, WV went without power for an average of 16.2 hours, a total of 150K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.8 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 294th 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 Wetzel 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 | April 23, 2019 16:00 | April 23, 2019 22:00 | 6h | 2,028 | 546 |
| 2 | June 20, 2019 01:30 | June 20, 2019 23:00 | 21h 30m | 1,466 | 3,026 |
| 3 | May 9, 2019 10:45 | May 9, 2019 12:45 | 2h | 1,461 | 2,441 |
| 4 | November 27, 2019 14:00 | November 27, 2019 16:30 | 2h 30m | 1,461 | 1,793 |
| 5 | April 19, 2019 11:30 | April 19, 2019 14:45 | 3h 15m | 1,410 | 1,769 |
| 6 | October 21, 2019 00:45 | October 21, 2019 01:45 | 1h | 1,400 | 1,400 |
| 7 | December 20, 2019 11:45 | December 20, 2019 16:15 | 4h 30m | 1,398 | 6,159 |
| 8 | October 31, 2019 16:15 | November 2, 2019 18:45 | 2d 2h | 1,397 | 19K |
| 9 | February 24, 2019 12:30 | February 28, 2019 20:45 | 4d 8h | 971 | 37K |
| 10 | April 26, 2019 10:30 | April 27, 2019 18:00 | 1d 7h | 846 | 3,537 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 53 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 Wetzel 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2018 | 12.4 hrs | 2.89 | 11.6 hrs | 2.80 |
| City of New Martinsville - (WV) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,256 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. Wetzel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wetzel 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/wetzel-county