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2020 Pocahontas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pocahontas County, WV went without power for an average of 29.0 hours, a total of 134K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 290th 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 Pocahontas 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 | January 31, 2020 18:15 | January 31, 2020 20:00 | 1h 45m | 6,080 | 8,212 |
| 2 | July 5, 2020 17:15 | July 5, 2020 21:00 | 3h 45m | 4,830 | 11K |
| 3 | January 29, 2020 19:30 | January 30, 2020 00:30 | 5h | 4,820 | 6,402 |
| 4 | April 8, 2020 09:30 | April 10, 2020 20:45 | 2d 11h | 4,089 | 41K |
| 5 | October 31, 2020 06:00 | October 31, 2020 22:00 | 16h | 3,282 | 9,117 |
| 6 | December 26, 2020 14:30 | December 27, 2020 04:30 | 14h | 1,768 | 6,797 |
| 7 | February 2, 2020 13:45 | February 3, 2020 00:30 | 10h 45m | 1,583 | 2,933 |
| 8 | October 20, 2020 12:15 | October 20, 2020 19:15 | 7h | 1,575 | 9,308 |
| 9 | July 23, 2020 12:15 | July 24, 2020 00:45 | 12h 30m | 1,308 | 2,673 |
| 10 | March 29, 2020 20:15 | March 30, 2020 04:00 | 7h 45m | 1,307 | 1,716 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 30 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Pocahontas 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 |
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 ÷ 4,599 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. Pocahontas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pocahontas 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/pocahontas-county