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2023 Upshur County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Upshur County, WV went without power for an average of 13.5 hours, a total of 194K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 641st 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 Upshur 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 | January 25, 2023 16:30 | January 26, 2023 19:15 | 1d 2h | 2,905 | 7,174 |
| 2 | June 13, 2023 12:45 | June 14, 2023 00:30 | 11h 45m | 2,575 | 9,758 |
| 3 | September 5, 2023 14:00 | September 6, 2023 02:15 | 12h 15m | 2,543 | 7,555 |
| 4 | June 3, 2023 20:15 | June 5, 2023 04:00 | 1d 7h | 2,035 | 18K |
| 5 | July 1, 2023 23:00 | July 2, 2023 00:30 | 1h 30m | 1,967 | 2,949 |
| 6 | April 1, 2023 08:45 | April 3, 2023 21:00 | 2d 12h | 1,793 | 24K |
| 7 | December 22, 2023 14:15 | December 22, 2023 15:30 | 1h 15m | 1,548 | 1,935 |
| 8 | April 22, 2023 11:30 | April 22, 2023 16:45 | 5h 15m | 1,361 | 3,073 |
| 9 | October 31, 2023 13:45 | October 31, 2023 17:45 | 4h | 1,237 | 324 |
| 10 | June 22, 2023 14:15 | June 22, 2023 16:30 | 2h 15m | 1,100 | 2,130 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 42 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Upshur 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 ÷ 14,393 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. Upshur County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Upshur 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/upshur-county