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2024 Berkeley County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Berkeley County, WV went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 88K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 2632nd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Berkeley County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 29, 2024 06:45 | April 29, 2024 08:30 | 1h 45m | 2,462 | 3,705 |
| 2 | September 28, 2024 14:45 | September 28, 2024 20:15 | 5h 30m | 2,339 | 6,508 |
| 3 | March 2, 2024 10:30 | March 2, 2024 18:00 | 7h 30m | 2,304 | 6,350 |
| 4 | April 9, 2024 04:00 | April 9, 2024 10:00 | 6h | 1,809 | 1,378 |
| 5 | May 4, 2024 11:45 | May 4, 2024 18:45 | 7h | 1,503 | 6,230 |
| 6 | August 11, 2024 21:00 | August 12, 2024 00:30 | 3h 30m | 1,391 | 2,204 |
| 7 | February 19, 2024 14:30 | February 19, 2024 15:00 | 30m | 1,347 | 674 |
| 8 | October 25, 2024 19:45 | October 25, 2024 20:45 | 1h | 1,342 | 1,342 |
| 9 | December 18, 2024 11:15 | December 18, 2024 14:30 | 3h 15m | 1,279 | 1,993 |
| 10 | May 29, 2024 03:30 | May 29, 2024 12:30 | 9h | 1,212 | 3,654 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 48 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Berkeley County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Potomac Edison Company | 2024 | 3.7 hrs | 1.32 | 3.4 hrs | 1.28 |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 68,862 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. Berkeley County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berkeley County, WV annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/west-virginia/berkeley-county