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2024 Pocahontas County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Pocahontas County, WV went without power for an average of 34.4 hours, a total of 158K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 281st 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 Pocahontas 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 13, 2024 05:15 | April 14, 2024 05:30 | 1d | 4,550 | 17K |
| 2 | January 17, 2024 04:00 | January 17, 2024 12:45 | 8h 45m | 3,300 | 11K |
| 3 | June 26, 2024 12:15 | June 28, 2024 02:45 | 1d 14h | 2,076 | 12K |
| 4 | July 17, 2024 13:00 | July 18, 2024 02:00 | 13h | 1,899 | 8,783 |
| 5 | May 26, 2024 23:00 | May 30, 2024 06:30 | 3d 7h | 1,507 | 15K |
| 6 | August 9, 2024 06:15 | August 9, 2024 18:30 | 12h 15m | 1,297 | 6,954 |
| 7 | June 14, 2024 14:15 | June 14, 2024 14:30 | 15m | 1,262 | 316 |
| 8 | February 13, 2024 09:00 | February 13, 2024 12:30 | 3h 30m | 1,182 | 4,137 |
| 9 | December 29, 2024 16:30 | December 30, 2024 23:15 | 1d 6h | 1,078 | 9,047 |
| 10 | September 27, 2024 14:00 | September 29, 2024 23:00 | 2d 9h | 1,073 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 44 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Pocahontas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monongahela Power Co | 2024 | 14.2 hrs | 2.87 | 7.7 hrs | 2.34 |
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 ÷ 4,599 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. Pocahontas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pocahontas 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/pocahontas-county