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2021 Pocahontas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pocahontas County, WV went without power for an average of 16.0 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 535th 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 Pocahontas 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 29, 2021 12:30 | April 29, 2021 22:45 | 10h 15m | 1,737 | 14K |
| 2 | August 20, 2021 11:30 | August 20, 2021 17:30 | 6h | 1,376 | 7,303 |
| 3 | February 4, 2021 13:30 | February 4, 2021 19:00 | 5h 30m | 1,307 | 7,189 |
| 4 | February 21, 2021 12:30 | February 21, 2021 18:00 | 5h 30m | 1,307 | 7,188 |
| 5 | May 1, 2021 02:30 | May 1, 2021 05:00 | 2h 30m | 1,305 | 2,965 |
| 6 | March 31, 2021 12:00 | March 31, 2021 22:15 | 10h 15m | 1,304 | 13K |
| 7 | June 2, 2021 12:00 | June 2, 2021 13:45 | 1h 45m | 1,029 | 518 |
| 8 | March 29, 2021 03:00 | March 29, 2021 10:45 | 7h 45m | 909 | 2,098 |
| 9 | August 24, 2021 12:00 | August 24, 2021 15:00 | 3h | 905 | 2,520 |
| 10 | January 25, 2021 03:15 | January 25, 2021 06:00 | 2h 45m | 362 | 948 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 24 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Pocahontas 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 |
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 ÷ 4,599 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. Pocahontas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pocahontas 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/pocahontas-county