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2020 Grant County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Grant County, WV went without power for an average of 7.9 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 972nd 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 Grant 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 | August 24, 2020 15:15 | August 24, 2020 16:30 | 1h 15m | 2,280 | 2,850 |
| 2 | November 19, 2020 12:45 | November 19, 2020 14:00 | 1h 15m | 2,129 | 1,067 |
| 3 | August 15, 2020 23:15 | August 16, 2020 03:30 | 4h 15m | 2,119 | 6,229 |
| 4 | May 15, 2020 15:45 | May 15, 2020 20:15 | 4h 30m | 2,111 | 3,702 |
| 5 | January 12, 2020 02:15 | January 12, 2020 08:00 | 5h 45m | 1,274 | 4,785 |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 05:30 | April 13, 2020 21:00 | 15h 30m | 914 | 4,444 |
| 7 | July 23, 2020 13:00 | July 23, 2020 23:00 | 10h | 858 | 1,966 |
| 8 | January 14, 2020 13:15 | January 14, 2020 13:30 | 15m | 586 | 147 |
| 9 | August 29, 2020 17:45 | August 29, 2020 19:15 | 1h 30m | 546 | 807 |
| 10 | November 7, 2020 12:30 | November 7, 2020 20:00 | 7h 30m | 508 | 3,303 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 23 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 Grant 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 |
| 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 ÷ 5,906 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. Grant County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grant 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/grant-county