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2020 Wetzel County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wetzel County, WV went without power for an average of 12.9 hours, a total of 119K customer-hours (West Virginia average 11.4 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 629th 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 Wetzel 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 13, 2020 03:15 | March 13, 2020 14:00 | 10h 45m | 2,547 | 2,424 |
| 2 | April 2, 2020 13:00 | April 2, 2020 18:45 | 5h 45m | 2,018 | 12K |
| 3 | April 8, 2020 06:30 | April 8, 2020 16:15 | 9h 45m | 999 | 2,489 |
| 4 | June 27, 2020 23:30 | June 29, 2020 04:15 | 1d 4h | 907 | 10K |
| 5 | July 1, 2020 14:30 | July 1, 2020 21:30 | 7h | 906 | 6,342 |
| 6 | October 18, 2020 18:00 | October 18, 2020 20:45 | 2h 45m | 877 | 2,412 |
| 7 | September 7, 2020 22:00 | September 8, 2020 16:45 | 18h 45m | 874 | 3,327 |
| 8 | August 25, 2020 01:15 | August 25, 2020 02:30 | 1h 15m | 871 | 1,089 |
| 9 | August 25, 2020 20:15 | August 28, 2020 04:15 | 2d 8h | 844 | 5,200 |
| 10 | August 7, 2020 15:30 | August 7, 2020 19:45 | 4h 15m | 752 | 1,744 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 61 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 Wetzel 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2020 | 14.0 hrs | 2.51 | 10.0 hrs | 2.25 |
| City of New Martinsville - (WV) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,256 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. Wetzel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wetzel 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/wetzel-county