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2023 Hardy County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Hardy County, WV went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 974th 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 Hardy 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 | March 4, 2023 11:45 | March 6, 2023 00:30 | 1d 12h | 1,452 | 9,312 |
| 2 | August 7, 2023 19:45 | August 8, 2023 21:30 | 1d 1h | 930 | 4,428 |
| 3 | July 1, 2023 20:30 | July 2, 2023 08:00 | 11h 30m | 876 | 4,512 |
| 4 | July 2, 2023 21:30 | July 3, 2023 13:15 | 15h 45m | 738 | 1,573 |
| 5 | August 2, 2023 10:45 | August 2, 2023 11:00 | 15m | 735 | 184 |
| 6 | May 12, 2023 22:45 | May 13, 2023 03:30 | 4h 45m | 730 | 1,108 |
| 7 | March 6, 2023 14:15 | March 7, 2023 00:45 | 10h 30m | 707 | 3,901 |
| 8 | July 31, 2023 00:00 | July 31, 2023 01:30 | 1h 30m | 676 | 1,014 |
| 9 | April 30, 2023 07:00 | April 30, 2023 15:45 | 8h 45m | 613 | 1,904 |
| 10 | October 21, 2023 17:15 | October 21, 2023 23:30 | 6h 15m | 541 | 2,572 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 47 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Hardy 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 ÷ 8,586 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. Hardy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardy 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/hardy-county