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2021 Pendleton County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pendleton County, WV went without power for an average of 12.8 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 644th 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 Pendleton 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 22, 2021 19:15 | March 23, 2021 02:15 | 7h | 3,521 | 12K |
| 2 | November 10, 2021 07:00 | November 10, 2021 20:30 | 13h 30m | 1,559 | 7,797 |
| 3 | March 20, 2021 11:15 | March 20, 2021 13:30 | 2h 15m | 885 | 1,450 |
| 4 | April 6, 2021 20:00 | April 6, 2021 20:45 | 45m | 824 | 618 |
| 5 | May 1, 2021 05:15 | May 1, 2021 16:45 | 11h 30m | 448 | 1,723 |
| 6 | May 29, 2021 12:15 | May 29, 2021 17:30 | 5h 15m | 378 | 1,650 |
| 7 | April 30, 2021 13:45 | May 1, 2021 02:30 | 12h 45m | 330 | 838 |
| 8 | September 22, 2021 19:00 | September 23, 2021 16:30 | 21h 30m | 248 | 1,387 |
| 9 | August 13, 2021 18:30 | August 14, 2021 04:00 | 9h 30m | 232 | 1,172 |
| 10 | January 2, 2021 12:15 | January 2, 2021 20:45 | 8h 30m | 229 | 1,189 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 26 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 Pendleton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monongahela Power Co | 2021 | 7.2 hrs | 2.28 | 6.1 hrs | 2.16 |
| 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 ÷ 3,221 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. Pendleton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pendleton 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/pendleton-county