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2020 Marion County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Marion County, WV went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 271K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 936th 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 Marion 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 | March 29, 2020 12:00 | March 29, 2020 12:45 | 45m | 7,434 | 1,861 |
| 2 | August 25, 2020 12:30 | August 27, 2020 19:30 | 2d 7h | 3,898 | 47K |
| 3 | December 1, 2020 11:00 | December 3, 2020 00:30 | 1d 13h | 3,403 | 17K |
| 4 | November 4, 2020 13:45 | November 4, 2020 21:15 | 7h 30m | 2,879 | 12K |
| 5 | April 13, 2020 03:30 | April 15, 2020 01:30 | 1d 22h | 2,607 | 16K |
| 6 | June 19, 2020 12:15 | June 20, 2020 02:45 | 14h 30m | 2,408 | 9,203 |
| 7 | October 5, 2020 01:15 | October 5, 2020 05:30 | 4h 15m | 2,051 | 5,303 |
| 8 | July 19, 2020 16:30 | July 19, 2020 23:15 | 6h 45m | 2,043 | 12K |
| 9 | May 25, 2020 16:00 | May 26, 2020 01:15 | 9h 15m | 2,032 | 12K |
| 10 | July 10, 2020 00:15 | July 12, 2020 16:30 | 2d 16h | 1,861 | 6,283 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 76 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Marion 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 |
| Harrison Rural Elec Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 33,284 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. Marion County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marion 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/marion-county