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2022 Berkeley County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Berkeley County, WV went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 176K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.5 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 2091st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Berkeley County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 23, 2022 21:00 | July 26, 2022 01:15 | 2d 4h | 7,826 | 44K |
| 2 | December 29, 2022 19:15 | December 29, 2022 23:15 | 4h | 4,531 | 3,418 |
| 3 | February 18, 2022 06:30 | February 19, 2022 13:15 | 1d 6h | 4,071 | 5,940 |
| 4 | November 1, 2022 08:45 | November 1, 2022 16:45 | 8h | 3,934 | 11K |
| 5 | July 27, 2022 12:30 | July 27, 2022 16:30 | 4h | 3,403 | 2,583 |
| 6 | August 31, 2022 13:30 | August 31, 2022 19:15 | 5h 45m | 2,899 | 3,961 |
| 7 | January 7, 2022 05:15 | January 7, 2022 20:45 | 15h 30m | 2,063 | 15K |
| 8 | January 22, 2022 10:00 | January 22, 2022 22:00 | 12h | 1,968 | 5,682 |
| 9 | April 20, 2022 12:30 | April 21, 2022 08:00 | 19h 30m | 1,850 | 11K |
| 10 | December 23, 2022 12:45 | December 26, 2022 23:15 | 3d 10h | 1,616 | 27K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 49 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Berkeley County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 8.1 hrs | 1.58 | 3.2 hrs | 1.19 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 100% of West Virginia's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 68,862 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. Berkeley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berkeley County, WV annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/west-virginia/berkeley-county