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2020 Barbour County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Barbour County, WV went without power for an average of 8.9 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 876th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barbour County, 2020
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 12, 2020 06:30 | January 13, 2020 00:45 | 18h 15m | 2,783 | 6,859 |
| 2 | June 25, 2020 09:00 | June 25, 2020 13:15 | 4h 15m | 1,462 | 6,110 |
| 3 | May 12, 2020 13:15 | May 12, 2020 21:30 | 8h 15m | 1,454 | 9,450 |
| 4 | December 25, 2020 01:30 | December 26, 2020 03:00 | 1d 1h | 1,160 | 4,346 |
| 5 | August 25, 2020 21:30 | August 27, 2020 02:45 | 1d 5h | 1,010 | 9,003 |
| 6 | August 17, 2020 11:15 | August 17, 2020 13:00 | 1h 45m | 517 | 270 |
| 7 | June 15, 2020 08:45 | June 15, 2020 17:45 | 9h | 511 | 2,527 |
| 8 | July 20, 2020 13:30 | July 20, 2020 14:00 | 30m | 455 | 228 |
| 9 | April 12, 2020 20:45 | April 13, 2020 23:15 | 1d 2h | 435 | 2,600 |
| 10 | July 5, 2020 22:30 | July 5, 2020 22:45 | 15m | 396 | 99 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 33 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Barbour County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 8.5 hrs | 2.51 | 6.8 hrs | 2.18 |
| Harrison Rural Elec Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Philippi Municipal Electric | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,857 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. Barbour County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barbour County, WV annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/west-virginia/barbour-county