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2023 Jefferson County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Jefferson County, WV went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 2024th 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 Jefferson 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 28, 2023 15:30 | April 29, 2023 01:15 | 9h 45m | 2,704 | 11K |
| 2 | July 11, 2023 12:45 | July 11, 2023 19:45 | 7h | 2,035 | 8,170 |
| 3 | January 25, 2023 13:00 | January 25, 2023 15:30 | 2h 30m | 1,596 | 1,245 |
| 4 | February 16, 2023 19:30 | February 17, 2023 02:15 | 6h 45m | 1,570 | 1,465 |
| 5 | July 14, 2023 21:00 | July 16, 2023 06:45 | 1d 9h | 1,516 | 6,581 |
| 6 | June 23, 2023 14:30 | June 23, 2023 19:15 | 4h 45m | 1,475 | 1,837 |
| 7 | December 14, 2023 06:30 | December 14, 2023 15:15 | 8h 45m | 1,456 | 4,911 |
| 8 | April 1, 2023 23:00 | April 2, 2023 10:15 | 11h 15m | 1,171 | 1,327 |
| 9 | February 6, 2023 13:00 | February 7, 2023 00:45 | 11h 45m | 1,028 | 3,068 |
| 10 | July 28, 2023 12:30 | July 31, 2023 00:15 | 2d 11h | 895 | 5,869 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 39 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Jefferson 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 ÷ 30,664 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county