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2022 Hardy County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Hardy County, WV went without power for an average of 34.0 hours, a total of 292K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.5 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 140th 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 Hardy 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 12, 2022 20:00 | July 15, 2022 22:30 | 3d 2h | 2,977 | 48K |
| 2 | December 15, 2022 11:45 | December 21, 2022 22:00 | 6d 10h | 2,938 | 147K |
| 3 | June 27, 2022 21:00 | June 27, 2022 23:30 | 2h 30m | 1,494 | 1,500 |
| 4 | December 22, 2022 17:45 | December 26, 2022 18:30 | 4d | 1,061 | 20K |
| 5 | April 26, 2022 01:00 | April 26, 2022 18:00 | 17h | 994 | 7,407 |
| 6 | January 22, 2022 23:15 | January 23, 2022 02:30 | 3h 15m | 862 | 804 |
| 7 | February 18, 2022 05:30 | February 19, 2022 01:30 | 20h | 835 | 7,996 |
| 8 | September 12, 2022 17:15 | September 12, 2022 19:30 | 2h 15m | 833 | 1,864 |
| 9 | January 10, 2022 13:00 | January 10, 2022 14:45 | 1h 45m | 832 | 941 |
| 10 | June 25, 2022 23:00 | June 27, 2022 02:45 | 1d 3h | 808 | 7,952 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 49 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Hardy 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 ÷ 8,586 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. Hardy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardy 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/hardy-county