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2020 Upshur County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Upshur County, WV went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 97K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1128th 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 Upshur 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 27, 2020 15:15 | August 27, 2020 20:00 | 4h 45m | 2,531 | 6,336 |
| 2 | November 15, 2020 15:15 | November 16, 2020 23:00 | 1d 7h | 1,950 | 8,269 |
| 3 | December 16, 2020 18:45 | December 18, 2020 22:45 | 2d 4h | 1,341 | 11K |
| 4 | March 29, 2020 13:00 | March 30, 2020 04:00 | 15h | 1,323 | 2,789 |
| 5 | July 10, 2020 14:30 | July 10, 2020 18:00 | 3h 30m | 1,299 | 2,466 |
| 6 | February 17, 2020 00:00 | February 17, 2020 04:30 | 4h 30m | 1,254 | 3,536 |
| 7 | July 17, 2020 17:00 | July 17, 2020 19:45 | 2h 45m | 1,251 | 2,228 |
| 8 | June 19, 2020 15:30 | June 19, 2020 20:45 | 5h 15m | 1,101 | 3,588 |
| 9 | April 28, 2020 16:45 | April 28, 2020 18:45 | 2h | 1,086 | 857 |
| 10 | June 23, 2020 12:15 | June 23, 2020 19:15 | 7h | 1,008 | 7,043 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 37 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Upshur 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 ÷ 14,393 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. Upshur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Upshur 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/upshur-county