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2020 Jefferson County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Jefferson County, WV went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 67K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 2182nd 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 Jefferson 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 6, 2020 22:45 | July 7, 2020 21:30 | 22h 45m | 2,463 | 20K |
| 2 | June 15, 2020 13:00 | June 15, 2020 17:30 | 4h 30m | 2,014 | 3,443 |
| 3 | January 16, 2020 20:15 | January 16, 2020 23:15 | 3h | 1,274 | 358 |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 05:15 | April 14, 2020 21:15 | 1d 16h | 1,189 | 7,145 |
| 5 | January 17, 2020 00:30 | January 17, 2020 05:00 | 4h 30m | 990 | 1,250 |
| 6 | May 23, 2020 09:15 | May 23, 2020 18:00 | 8h 45m | 703 | 1,453 |
| 7 | December 22, 2020 12:45 | December 22, 2020 13:15 | 30m | 701 | 351 |
| 8 | April 10, 2020 14:00 | April 11, 2020 00:30 | 10h 30m | 700 | 245 |
| 9 | December 19, 2020 13:00 | December 19, 2020 16:00 | 3h | 570 | 955 |
| 10 | December 16, 2020 22:45 | December 17, 2020 02:15 | 3h 30m | 556 | 1,264 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 38 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Jefferson 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 ÷ 30,664 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county