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2020 Gilmer County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Gilmer County, WV went without power for an average of 16.1 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 517th 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 Gilmer 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 | April 6, 2020 12:30 | April 6, 2020 16:15 | 3h 45m | 3,013 | 2,276 |
| 2 | March 13, 2020 08:00 | March 14, 2020 00:30 | 16h 30m | 1,338 | 2,784 |
| 3 | July 7, 2020 13:45 | July 8, 2020 00:30 | 10h 45m | 762 | 2,504 |
| 4 | April 8, 2020 08:45 | April 11, 2020 00:15 | 2d 15h | 717 | 8,168 |
| 5 | February 25, 2020 14:15 | February 25, 2020 15:15 | 1h | 667 | 667 |
| 6 | April 28, 2020 03:00 | April 28, 2020 17:00 | 14h | 636 | 2,049 |
| 7 | June 8, 2020 08:00 | June 8, 2020 16:30 | 8h 30m | 575 | 2,426 |
| 8 | May 4, 2020 02:15 | May 4, 2020 21:45 | 19h 30m | 542 | 1,128 |
| 9 | July 31, 2020 14:45 | July 31, 2020 18:45 | 4h | 541 | 1,202 |
| 10 | May 20, 2020 06:00 | May 20, 2020 17:30 | 11h 30m | 540 | 2,396 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 48 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Gilmer 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 |
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 ÷ 4,601 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. Gilmer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gilmer 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/gilmer-county