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2023 Wetzel County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wetzel County, WV went without power for an average of 15.3 hours, a total of 141K customer-hours (West Virginia average 13.6 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 567th 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 Wetzel 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 | March 25, 2023 18:15 | March 29, 2023 04:00 | 3d 9h | 3,044 | 47K |
| 2 | September 17, 2023 12:15 | September 17, 2023 18:15 | 6h | 1,996 | 12K |
| 3 | June 14, 2023 06:30 | June 14, 2023 23:15 | 16h 45m | 1,712 | 13K |
| 4 | June 26, 2023 19:45 | June 27, 2023 22:30 | 1d 2h | 1,416 | 1,187 |
| 5 | January 3, 2023 14:00 | January 4, 2023 05:45 | 15h 45m | 1,412 | 4,508 |
| 6 | August 25, 2023 10:00 | August 25, 2023 22:15 | 12h 15m | 1,404 | 5,296 |
| 7 | October 14, 2023 20:45 | October 15, 2023 00:45 | 4h | 887 | 1,092 |
| 8 | November 9, 2023 17:45 | November 9, 2023 19:30 | 1h 45m | 757 | 1,136 |
| 9 | May 10, 2023 02:30 | May 10, 2023 03:00 | 30m | 609 | 305 |
| 10 | March 3, 2023 23:15 | March 6, 2023 21:15 | 2d 22h | 606 | 6,653 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 44 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Wetzel 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2023 | 13.0 hrs | 2.25 | 9.9 hrs | 2.05 |
| City of New Martinsville - (WV) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,256 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. Wetzel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wetzel 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/wetzel-county