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2020 Pendleton County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pendleton County, WV went without power for an average of 14.1 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 593rd 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 Pendleton 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 5, 2020 13:15 | August 5, 2020 17:45 | 4h 30m | 3,515 | 16K |
| 2 | May 28, 2020 13:30 | May 28, 2020 17:45 | 4h 15m | 1,449 | 6,158 |
| 3 | February 5, 2020 16:45 | February 5, 2020 23:30 | 6h 45m | 947 | 3,138 |
| 4 | April 1, 2020 06:45 | April 1, 2020 13:45 | 7h | 883 | 2,093 |
| 5 | June 19, 2020 12:15 | June 20, 2020 03:00 | 14h 45m | 566 | 1,760 |
| 6 | June 22, 2020 21:45 | June 23, 2020 01:00 | 3h 15m | 504 | 388 |
| 7 | June 21, 2020 16:30 | June 22, 2020 01:30 | 9h | 247 | 733 |
| 8 | August 1, 2020 17:45 | August 2, 2020 04:00 | 10h 15m | 231 | 993 |
| 9 | April 30, 2020 05:45 | April 30, 2020 16:00 | 10h 15m | 230 | 911 |
| 10 | May 8, 2020 18:00 | May 8, 2020 21:00 | 3h | 230 | 413 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 27 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 Pendleton 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 ÷ 3,221 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. Pendleton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pendleton 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/pendleton-county