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2024 Jefferson County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Jefferson County, WV went without power for an average of 11.1 hours, a total of 341K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 848th 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 Jefferson 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 | August 8, 2024 23:45 | August 11, 2024 11:00 | 2d 11h | 3,492 | 36K |
| 2 | July 3, 2024 10:45 | July 4, 2024 05:45 | 19h | 2,884 | 16K |
| 3 | June 15, 2024 13:00 | June 16, 2024 03:15 | 14h 15m | 1,833 | 12K |
| 4 | February 13, 2024 09:00 | February 14, 2024 01:30 | 16h 30m | 1,737 | 13K |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 19:45 | January 10, 2024 22:15 | 1d 2h | 1,673 | 5,845 |
| 6 | August 3, 2024 15:45 | August 5, 2024 18:15 | 2d 2h | 1,570 | 17K |
| 7 | December 23, 2024 14:15 | December 23, 2024 20:15 | 6h | 1,341 | 4,895 |
| 8 | May 26, 2024 23:00 | May 28, 2024 19:30 | 1d 20h | 1,088 | 7,918 |
| 9 | April 3, 2024 08:30 | April 3, 2024 19:45 | 11h 15m | 1,041 | 4,887 |
| 10 | July 23, 2024 15:15 | July 30, 2024 15:30 | 7d | 1,036 | 172K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 43 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 Jefferson 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 ÷ 30,664 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. Jefferson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jefferson 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/jefferson-county