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2020 Hardy County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hardy County, WV went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1349th 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 Hardy 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 | July 16, 2020 18:45 | July 16, 2020 20:15 | 1h 30m | 1,472 | 2,207 |
| 2 | October 19, 2020 11:30 | October 19, 2020 14:45 | 3h 15m | 849 | 1,281 |
| 3 | August 9, 2020 00:00 | August 9, 2020 03:15 | 3h 15m | 845 | 2,325 |
| 4 | December 29, 2020 14:15 | December 29, 2020 20:00 | 5h 45m | 815 | 3,031 |
| 5 | June 23, 2020 12:15 | June 23, 2020 20:15 | 8h | 814 | 1,528 |
| 6 | April 8, 2020 00:45 | April 8, 2020 04:00 | 3h 15m | 663 | 1,002 |
| 7 | July 23, 2020 20:15 | July 24, 2020 01:15 | 5h | 412 | 1,108 |
| 8 | March 29, 2020 18:15 | March 30, 2020 01:15 | 7h | 394 | 987 |
| 9 | June 12, 2020 09:45 | June 12, 2020 16:00 | 6h 15m | 383 | 1,145 |
| 10 | September 8, 2020 23:00 | September 9, 2020 00:30 | 1h 30m | 372 | 558 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 37 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Hardy 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 ÷ 8,586 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. Hardy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardy 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/hardy-county