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2024 Preston County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Preston County, WV went without power for an average of 15.6 hours, a total of 297K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 645th 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 Preston 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 | June 16, 2024 12:30 | June 16, 2024 14:45 | 2h 15m | 4,926 | 1,660 |
| 2 | September 27, 2024 15:00 | September 29, 2024 06:15 | 1d 15h | 2,881 | 23K |
| 3 | December 11, 2024 10:00 | December 11, 2024 16:00 | 6h | 2,608 | 9,981 |
| 4 | May 26, 2024 23:45 | May 28, 2024 21:45 | 1d 22h | 2,463 | 14K |
| 5 | January 12, 2024 18:30 | January 16, 2024 01:30 | 3d 7h | 2,327 | 23K |
| 6 | November 20, 2024 22:00 | November 21, 2024 03:45 | 5h 45m | 2,178 | 2,921 |
| 7 | June 18, 2024 03:00 | June 20, 2024 03:45 | 2d | 2,059 | 13K |
| 8 | December 29, 2024 16:30 | December 31, 2024 01:15 | 1d 8h | 1,900 | 7,679 |
| 9 | April 3, 2024 06:15 | April 3, 2024 10:00 | 3h 45m | 1,856 | 2,793 |
| 10 | June 22, 2024 03:15 | June 22, 2024 05:15 | 2h | 1,840 | 3,680 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 59 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Preston 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 ÷ 18,977 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. Preston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Preston 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/preston-county