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2024 Hardy County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Hardy County, WV went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 99K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 822nd 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 Hardy 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 | March 20, 2024 16:00 | March 22, 2024 05:15 | 1d 13h | 2,215 | 32K |
| 2 | June 27, 2024 00:00 | June 27, 2024 21:00 | 21h | 1,332 | 7,554 |
| 3 | February 17, 2024 07:30 | February 17, 2024 21:00 | 13h 30m | 1,008 | 4,815 |
| 4 | March 25, 2024 14:45 | March 25, 2024 15:15 | 30m | 850 | 425 |
| 5 | May 25, 2024 16:15 | May 26, 2024 06:30 | 14h 15m | 815 | 2,355 |
| 6 | March 29, 2024 17:30 | March 30, 2024 05:00 | 11h 30m | 695 | 2,701 |
| 7 | March 10, 2024 16:30 | March 11, 2024 00:45 | 8h 15m | 681 | 914 |
| 8 | February 13, 2024 11:45 | February 13, 2024 22:30 | 10h 45m | 628 | 1,135 |
| 9 | August 9, 2024 02:00 | August 10, 2024 15:15 | 1d 13h | 548 | 2,762 |
| 10 | December 2, 2024 12:15 | December 2, 2024 15:45 | 3h 30m | 542 | 1,634 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 43 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Hardy 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 ÷ 8,586 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. Hardy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardy 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/hardy-county