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County annual report · FIPS 54021

2023 Gilmer County, WV Power Outage Report

In 2023, customers in Gilmer County, WV went without power for an average of 34.1 hours, a total of 157K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 192nd of 2,977 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
34.1
4,601 customers
Customer-hours out
157K
Peak customers out
3,697
Outages ≥1,000 out
6
0 of 10,000+ · 222 total
Longest outage
3d 7h
began July 28, 2023
Rank in state
9th/55
192nd of 2,977 US

Compared with WV, the US and 2022

Gilmer County, WV average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2023Gilmer County 34.1 hours, West Virginia average 13.6 hours, US average 7.1 hours, Gilmer County, 2022 27.2 hoursGilmer CountyGilmer County34.1hWest Virginia averageWest Virginia average13.6hUS averageUS average7.1hGilmer County, 2022Gilmer County, 202227.2h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2023; last bar is this county in 2022.

Month by month

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Gilmer County, WV customer-hours without power by month, 2023Jan 2,592, Feb 20K, Mar 42K, Apr 12K, May 1,242, Jun 14K, Jul 52K, Aug 5,007, Sep 4,775, Oct 561, Nov 1,475, Dec 686020k40k60k2,592Jan20KFeb42KMar12KApr1,242May14KJun52KJul5,007Aug4,775Sep561Oct1,475Nov686Dec
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Customer-hours; July was the worst month.

Gilmer County year over year

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Gilmer County, WV: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 78.5h; 2016: 17.7h; 2017: 37.3h; 2018: 13.1h, coverage 100%; 2019: 21.4h, coverage 100%; 2020: 16.1h, coverage 100%; 2021: 11.8h, coverage 97%; 2022: 27.2h, coverage 100%; 2023: 34.1h; 2024: 17.8h; 2025: 45.9h0204060800%50%100%78.5h201517.7h201637.3h201713.1h201821.4h201916.1h202011.8h202127.2h202234.1h202317.8h202445.9h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Gilmer County, 2023

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1April 1, 2023 16:15April 4, 2023 19:303d 3h3,6976,686
2February 14, 2023 21:45February 14, 2023 23:301h 45m3,0122,260
3February 20, 2023 13:45February 20, 2023 21:307h 45m3,01217K
4July 18, 2023 23:30July 19, 2023 23:451d2,84822K
5March 25, 2023 17:45March 28, 2023 22:153d 4h1,06432K
6July 28, 2023 20:00August 1, 2023 03:153d 7h1,01325K
7June 7, 2023 19:15June 8, 2023 17:4522h 30m67611K
8March 8, 2023 11:15March 8, 2023 20:459h 30m6673,521
9August 7, 2023 16:00August 9, 2023 07:151d 15h6642,530
10June 7, 2023 03:00June 7, 2023 04:301h 30m662664

Outage episodes by size in 2023: 41 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Gilmer County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Monongahela Power Co202312.4 hrs2.576.0 hrs2.00

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 ÷ 4,601 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. Gilmer County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gilmer 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/gilmer-county

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