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2021 Upshur County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Upshur County, WV went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 95K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1078th 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 Upshur 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 | June 21, 2021 08:30 | June 22, 2021 19:30 | 1d 11h | 2,203 | 12K |
| 2 | May 9, 2021 18:45 | May 9, 2021 20:00 | 1h 15m | 1,962 | 1,965 |
| 3 | April 6, 2021 00:15 | April 6, 2021 16:45 | 16h 30m | 1,867 | 4,012 |
| 4 | April 15, 2021 13:00 | April 15, 2021 19:30 | 6h 30m | 1,329 | 5,522 |
| 5 | February 13, 2021 00:30 | February 13, 2021 07:15 | 6h 45m | 1,296 | 4,896 |
| 6 | August 3, 2021 13:00 | August 3, 2021 17:30 | 4h 30m | 1,107 | 4,426 |
| 7 | June 20, 2021 14:45 | June 20, 2021 17:00 | 2h 15m | 1,086 | 820 |
| 8 | December 11, 2021 10:00 | December 13, 2021 00:30 | 1d 14h | 1,027 | 3,890 |
| 9 | August 20, 2021 19:00 | August 20, 2021 22:00 | 3h | 987 | 1,882 |
| 10 | January 25, 2021 21:00 | January 25, 2021 22:45 | 1h 45m | 769 | 921 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 43 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Upshur 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 |
| Harrison Rural Elec Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 14,393 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. Upshur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Upshur 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/upshur-county