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2021 Jefferson County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Jefferson County, WV went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 111K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1653rd 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 Jefferson 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 | March 28, 2021 21:00 | March 29, 2021 23:00 | 1d 2h | 4,018 | 20K |
| 2 | May 26, 2021 19:30 | May 28, 2021 02:45 | 1d 7h | 3,859 | 15K |
| 3 | August 10, 2021 20:30 | August 11, 2021 17:30 | 21h | 2,875 | 5,280 |
| 4 | April 30, 2021 15:30 | May 2, 2021 00:00 | 1d 8h | 2,125 | 11K |
| 5 | October 16, 2021 19:30 | October 16, 2021 23:30 | 4h | 2,027 | 2,039 |
| 6 | December 20, 2021 15:00 | December 20, 2021 21:00 | 6h | 1,324 | 1,706 |
| 7 | December 11, 2021 21:15 | December 12, 2021 18:30 | 21h 15m | 1,300 | 3,014 |
| 8 | June 10, 2021 13:30 | June 11, 2021 00:45 | 11h 15m | 1,287 | 1,663 |
| 9 | June 11, 2021 12:45 | June 12, 2021 09:15 | 20h 30m | 1,267 | 2,151 |
| 10 | November 16, 2021 13:00 | November 16, 2021 17:30 | 4h 30m | 1,122 | 597 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 43 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Jefferson 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 ÷ 30,664 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county