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2023 Preston County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Preston County, WV went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 112K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 1306th 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 Preston 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 17:30 | August 9, 2023 18:30 | 2d 1h | 3,591 | 24K |
| 2 | April 15, 2023 11:45 | April 15, 2023 13:00 | 1h 15m | 1,804 | 2,255 |
| 3 | March 25, 2023 16:00 | March 27, 2023 03:45 | 1d 11h | 1,794 | 13K |
| 4 | December 19, 2023 15:00 | December 19, 2023 18:00 | 3h | 1,790 | 1,333 |
| 5 | December 20, 2023 15:45 | December 20, 2023 17:45 | 2h | 1,790 | 1,848 |
| 6 | April 22, 2023 12:15 | April 22, 2023 22:15 | 10h | 1,697 | 1,671 |
| 7 | November 20, 2023 13:30 | November 20, 2023 16:00 | 2h 30m | 1,631 | 4,076 |
| 8 | July 24, 2023 22:30 | July 25, 2023 03:15 | 4h 45m | 1,403 | 1,836 |
| 9 | March 3, 2023 19:30 | March 6, 2023 02:15 | 2d 6h | 1,220 | 16K |
| 10 | April 6, 2023 19:45 | April 6, 2023 23:45 | 4h | 1,120 | 2,518 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 46 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Preston 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 |
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 ÷ 18,977 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. Preston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Preston 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/preston-county