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2023 Barbour County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Barbour County, WV went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 867th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barbour County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 17, 2023 16:00 | April 17, 2023 20:45 | 4h 45m | 2,774 | 7,185 |
| 2 | December 27, 2023 13:30 | December 27, 2023 19:45 | 6h 15m | 2,489 | 15K |
| 3 | June 19, 2023 13:30 | June 19, 2023 19:15 | 5h 45m | 1,470 | 6,287 |
| 4 | July 15, 2023 23:15 | July 16, 2023 21:00 | 21h 45m | 948 | 10K |
| 5 | March 3, 2023 20:00 | March 6, 2023 20:45 | 3d | 763 | 17K |
| 6 | April 4, 2023 12:45 | April 4, 2023 18:00 | 5h 15m | 396 | 2,039 |
| 7 | July 3, 2023 02:30 | July 3, 2023 06:45 | 4h 15m | 392 | 1,666 |
| 8 | April 14, 2023 12:15 | April 14, 2023 16:45 | 4h 30m | 371 | 1,668 |
| 9 | March 14, 2023 13:15 | March 14, 2023 18:15 | 5h | 369 | 1,845 |
| 10 | February 4, 2023 13:45 | February 4, 2023 15:30 | 1h 45m | 311 | 544 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 27 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 Barbour County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 12.4 hrs | 2.57 | 6.0 hrs | 2.00 |
| Harrison Rural Elec Assn, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Philippi Municipal Electric | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of West Virginia's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,857 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. Barbour County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barbour County, WV annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/west-virginia/barbour-county