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2022 Wetzel County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wetzel County, WV went without power for an average of 12.2 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.5 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 564th 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 Wetzel 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 | November 27, 2022 19:00 | November 29, 2022 03:00 | 1d 8h | 3,108 | 6,629 |
| 2 | July 23, 2022 10:00 | July 25, 2022 20:30 | 2d 10h | 1,280 | 15K |
| 3 | October 30, 2022 14:45 | October 30, 2022 15:15 | 30m | 1,108 | 412 |
| 4 | August 4, 2022 20:30 | August 6, 2022 17:00 | 1d 20h | 926 | 3,888 |
| 5 | April 9, 2022 19:00 | April 10, 2022 01:00 | 6h | 878 | 3,828 |
| 6 | February 3, 2022 22:00 | February 9, 2022 00:15 | 5d 2h | 871 | 13K |
| 7 | February 18, 2022 01:30 | February 20, 2022 22:30 | 2d 21h | 659 | 6,774 |
| 8 | July 18, 2022 15:30 | July 18, 2022 21:30 | 6h | 615 | 972 |
| 9 | June 8, 2022 23:45 | June 9, 2022 23:30 | 23h 45m | 613 | 8,336 |
| 10 | July 23, 2022 03:00 | July 23, 2022 08:00 | 5h | 570 | 1,717 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 44 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 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2022 | 42.9 hrs | 3.22 | 15.5 hrs | 2.40 |
| 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 100% of West Virginia's customers in 2022; 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, 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/wetzel-county