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2020 Berkeley County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Berkeley County, WV went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 2645th 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 Berkeley 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 | October 6, 2020 14:45 | October 6, 2020 15:15 | 30m | 2,604 | 652 |
| 2 | July 11, 2020 02:45 | July 11, 2020 05:15 | 2h 30m | 2,312 | 4,595 |
| 3 | May 21, 2020 11:15 | May 21, 2020 19:15 | 8h | 1,857 | 15K |
| 4 | August 19, 2020 14:00 | August 19, 2020 19:30 | 5h 30m | 1,661 | 856 |
| 5 | April 8, 2020 07:45 | April 8, 2020 18:45 | 11h | 1,422 | 8,452 |
| 6 | July 4, 2020 03:30 | July 4, 2020 04:15 | 45m | 1,207 | 905 |
| 7 | April 13, 2020 16:45 | April 14, 2020 20:00 | 1d 3h | 1,132 | 1,546 |
| 8 | July 31, 2020 01:45 | July 31, 2020 08:30 | 6h 45m | 1,123 | 1,152 |
| 9 | August 10, 2020 11:45 | August 10, 2020 18:45 | 7h | 1,115 | 1,971 |
| 10 | May 5, 2020 15:00 | May 5, 2020 23:15 | 8h 15m | 1,114 | 1,069 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 43 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Berkeley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2020 | 2.4 hrs | 1.00 | 2.3 hrs | 0.99 |
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 ÷ 68,862 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. Berkeley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berkeley 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/berkeley-county