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2021 Wetzel County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wetzel County, WV went without power for an average of 8.4 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.4 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 903rd 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 Wetzel 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 | May 5, 2021 08:00 | May 6, 2021 01:45 | 17h 45m | 1,602 | 12K |
| 2 | August 13, 2021 21:30 | August 15, 2021 00:30 | 1d 3h | 1,520 | 7,538 |
| 3 | March 5, 2021 14:00 | March 5, 2021 15:15 | 1h 15m | 1,475 | 1,844 |
| 4 | January 26, 2021 03:45 | January 26, 2021 08:15 | 4h 30m | 619 | 2,221 |
| 5 | February 16, 2021 01:45 | February 17, 2021 17:45 | 1d 16h | 608 | 2,695 |
| 6 | June 21, 2021 22:15 | June 23, 2021 00:00 | 1d 1h | 593 | 7,955 |
| 7 | August 11, 2021 23:45 | August 13, 2021 15:45 | 1d 16h | 504 | 2,573 |
| 8 | July 30, 2021 11:30 | July 30, 2021 18:00 | 6h 30m | 461 | 2,655 |
| 9 | May 26, 2021 12:30 | May 27, 2021 23:15 | 1d 10h | 426 | 3,679 |
| 10 | March 28, 2021 15:15 | March 29, 2021 08:45 | 17h 30m | 420 | 1,647 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 26 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Wetzel 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2021 | 16.0 hrs | 2.55 | 14.4 hrs | 2.43 |
| City of New Martinsville - (WV) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,256 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. Wetzel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wetzel 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/wetzel-county