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2022 Pocahontas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Pocahontas County, WV went without power for an average of 28.4 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.5 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 196th 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 Pocahontas 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 | March 20, 2022 04:15 | March 20, 2022 08:30 | 4h 15m | 2,108 | 7,965 |
| 2 | June 14, 2022 01:30 | June 20, 2022 03:30 | 6d 2h | 1,526 | 59K |
| 3 | July 27, 2022 08:00 | July 27, 2022 19:00 | 11h | 1,308 | 4,684 |
| 4 | July 18, 2022 14:30 | July 19, 2022 01:15 | 10h 45m | 1,307 | 7,162 |
| 5 | May 28, 2022 12:00 | May 28, 2022 17:30 | 5h 30m | 1,306 | 6,505 |
| 6 | March 19, 2022 18:30 | March 20, 2022 00:30 | 6h | 1,296 | 2,365 |
| 7 | February 24, 2022 19:30 | February 25, 2022 02:00 | 6h 30m | 1,161 | 4,329 |
| 8 | March 13, 2022 18:30 | March 14, 2022 00:30 | 6h | 913 | 2,188 |
| 9 | October 1, 2022 06:15 | October 1, 2022 21:15 | 15h | 799 | 2,562 |
| 10 | January 22, 2022 10:30 | January 22, 2022 14:30 | 4h | 729 | 1,888 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 34 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monongahela Power Co | 2022 | 11.8 hrs | 2.55 | 6.8 hrs | 2.05 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/pocahontas-county