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2023 Berkeley County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Berkeley County, WV went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 67K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 2686th 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 Berkeley 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 | July 28, 2023 21:45 | July 29, 2023 16:45 | 19h | 1,995 | 11K |
| 2 | February 14, 2023 17:45 | February 14, 2023 20:15 | 2h 30m | 1,404 | 3,506 |
| 3 | February 8, 2023 13:30 | February 8, 2023 14:30 | 1h | 1,336 | 1,336 |
| 4 | April 28, 2023 07:45 | April 28, 2023 14:00 | 6h 15m | 1,328 | 1,785 |
| 5 | June 6, 2023 15:15 | June 6, 2023 17:45 | 2h 30m | 1,324 | 374 |
| 6 | May 25, 2023 04:45 | May 25, 2023 11:15 | 6h 30m | 1,242 | 5,262 |
| 7 | June 8, 2023 17:00 | June 9, 2023 02:15 | 9h 15m | 1,241 | 1,168 |
| 8 | August 9, 2023 08:00 | August 9, 2023 21:00 | 13h | 1,073 | 1,880 |
| 9 | March 25, 2023 14:15 | March 25, 2023 18:30 | 4h 15m | 968 | 1,617 |
| 10 | June 24, 2023 12:15 | June 24, 2023 13:30 | 1h 15m | 965 | 1,206 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 50 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.11 | 2.5 hrs | 0.98 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/berkeley-county