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2020 Preston County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Preston County, WV went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1793rd 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 Preston 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 12, 2020 07:15 | January 13, 2020 03:15 | 20h | 1,670 | 1,635 |
| 2 | July 10, 2020 11:15 | July 10, 2020 13:45 | 2h 30m | 1,322 | 346 |
| 3 | September 1, 2020 17:30 | September 2, 2020 00:30 | 7h | 1,090 | 2,804 |
| 4 | April 8, 2020 07:15 | April 10, 2020 03:00 | 1d 19h | 865 | 3,449 |
| 5 | December 28, 2020 08:15 | December 28, 2020 10:45 | 2h 30m | 829 | 1,825 |
| 6 | January 14, 2020 09:45 | January 14, 2020 12:00 | 2h 15m | 820 | 1,671 |
| 7 | July 17, 2020 02:00 | July 17, 2020 15:45 | 13h 45m | 735 | 3,375 |
| 8 | September 11, 2020 10:45 | September 11, 2020 12:00 | 1h 15m | 671 | 672 |
| 9 | July 4, 2020 16:15 | July 4, 2020 21:45 | 5h 30m | 667 | 2,944 |
| 10 | February 19, 2020 13:45 | February 19, 2020 17:30 | 3h 45m | 531 | 1,860 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 48 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Preston 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 ÷ 18,977 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. Preston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Preston 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/preston-county