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2021 Hardy County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Hardy County, WV went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 922nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hardy County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 30, 2021 14:45 | May 1, 2021 19:15 | 1d 4h | 983 | 4,058 |
| 2 | September 1, 2021 13:00 | September 2, 2021 20:00 | 1d 7h | 934 | 9,477 |
| 3 | April 15, 2021 09:30 | April 15, 2021 14:00 | 4h 30m | 819 | 2,229 |
| 4 | October 13, 2021 13:00 | October 13, 2021 14:30 | 1h 30m | 681 | 683 |
| 5 | May 25, 2021 13:30 | May 25, 2021 15:45 | 2h 15m | 666 | 1,499 |
| 6 | April 23, 2021 13:30 | April 23, 2021 15:30 | 2h | 665 | 1,330 |
| 7 | April 8, 2021 19:30 | April 9, 2021 03:45 | 8h 15m | 624 | 3,845 |
| 8 | June 21, 2021 20:00 | June 22, 2021 14:00 | 18h | 606 | 3,087 |
| 9 | September 22, 2021 22:30 | September 23, 2021 13:30 | 15h | 606 | 2,280 |
| 10 | September 28, 2021 13:00 | September 28, 2021 16:00 | 3h | 599 | 1,795 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 46 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Hardy County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2021 | 3.3 hrs | 1.26 | 2.9 hrs | 1.20 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 97% of West Virginia's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,586 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. Hardy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardy County, WV annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/west-virginia/hardy-county