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2023 Webster County, WV Power Outage Report

In 2023, customers in Webster County, WV went without power for an average of 32.4 hours, a total of 151K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 208th of 2,977 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
32.4
4,673 customers
Customer-hours out
151K
Peak customers out
2,825
Outages ≥1,000 out
10
0 of 10,000+ · 411 total
Longest outage
3d 11h
began March 3, 2023
Rank in state
11th/55
208th of 2,977 US

Compared with WV, the US and 2022

Webster County, WV average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2023Webster County 32.4 hours, West Virginia average 13.6 hours, US average 7.1 hours, Webster County, 2022 45.7 hoursWebster CountyWebster County32.4hWest Virginia averageWest Virginia average13.6hUS averageUS average7.1hWebster County, 2022Webster County, 202245.7h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2023; last bar is this county in 2022.

Month by month

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Webster County, WV customer-hours without power by month, 2023Jan 18K, Feb 2,096, Mar 50K, Apr 14K, May 6,224, Jun 8,391, Jul 18K, Aug 15K, Sep 5,150, Oct 5,537, Nov 3,705, Dec 5,741020k40k60k18KJan2,096Feb50KMar14KApr6,224May8,391Jun18KJul15KAug5,150Sep5,537Oct3,705Nov5,741Dec
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Customer-hours; March was the worst month.

Webster County year over year

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Webster County, WV: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 46.9h; 2016: 89.3h; 2017: 60.6h; 2018: 44.8h, coverage 100%; 2019: 38.0h, coverage 100%; 2020: 52.8h, coverage 100%; 2021: 27.0h, coverage 97%; 2022: 45.7h, coverage 100%; 2023: 32.4h; 2024: 68.2h; 2025: 64.1h02550751000%50%100%46.9h201589.3h201660.6h201744.8h201838.0h201952.8h202027.0h202145.7h202232.4h202368.2h202464.1h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Webster County, 2023

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1March 18, 2023 18:45March 19, 2023 02:307h 45m2,8259,006
2October 12, 2023 13:30October 12, 2023 13:4515m2,758690
3January 17, 2023 12:15January 17, 2023 14:001h 45m2,6333,268
4January 25, 2023 14:30January 27, 2023 00:451d 10h2,4668,457
5April 5, 2023 22:15April 5, 2023 23:151h2,1002,100
6August 28, 2023 15:15August 29, 2023 20:001d 4h2,0913,482
7December 22, 2023 19:45December 22, 2023 22:302h 45m2,0673,932
8May 1, 2023 03:00May 1, 2023 06:003h1,9353,952
9March 3, 2023 16:15March 7, 2023 04:003d 11h1,76737K
10January 5, 2023 14:30January 5, 2023 22:458h 15m1,2435,266

Outage episodes by size in 2023: 58 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 Webster County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Monongahela Power Co202312.4 hrs2.576.0 hrs2.00

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 ÷ 4,673 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. Webster County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Webster 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/webster-county

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