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2023 Marion County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Marion County, WV went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 330K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 847th 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 Marion 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 | August 7, 2023 17:15 | August 10, 2023 01:30 | 2d 8h | 7,273 | 43K |
| 2 | December 1, 2023 13:30 | December 2, 2023 03:00 | 13h 30m | 5,342 | 27K |
| 3 | December 29, 2023 05:30 | December 29, 2023 17:15 | 11h 45m | 5,328 | 31K |
| 4 | May 15, 2023 12:00 | May 15, 2023 16:00 | 4h | 2,256 | 3,953 |
| 5 | June 29, 2023 12:15 | June 30, 2023 00:30 | 12h 15m | 2,093 | 15K |
| 6 | February 8, 2023 20:15 | February 8, 2023 23:30 | 3h 15m | 2,083 | 1,575 |
| 7 | March 24, 2023 08:30 | March 24, 2023 14:00 | 5h 30m | 2,078 | 2,647 |
| 8 | July 26, 2023 20:00 | July 27, 2023 16:00 | 20h | 2,074 | 6,492 |
| 9 | November 30, 2023 20:00 | December 1, 2023 00:45 | 4h 45m | 2,068 | 1,774 |
| 10 | September 4, 2023 20:30 | September 5, 2023 08:00 | 11h 30m | 2,067 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 85 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Marion 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 33,284 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. Marion County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marion 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/marion-county