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2024 Wetzel County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Wetzel County, WV went without power for an average of 15.9 hours, a total of 147K customer-hours (West Virginia average 21.6 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 636th 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 Wetzel 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 14, 2024 10:15 | August 14, 2024 20:30 | 10h 15m | 2,512 | 15K |
| 2 | May 26, 2024 13:15 | May 29, 2024 07:15 | 2d 18h | 2,117 | 13K |
| 3 | March 27, 2024 13:00 | March 27, 2024 16:15 | 3h 15m | 1,993 | 6,477 |
| 4 | July 15, 2024 19:00 | July 15, 2024 22:45 | 3h 45m | 1,985 | 4,966 |
| 5 | October 20, 2024 12:45 | October 21, 2024 00:00 | 11h 15m | 1,985 | 9,591 |
| 6 | October 19, 2024 13:00 | October 19, 2024 22:30 | 9h 30m | 1,982 | 19K |
| 7 | June 2, 2024 17:30 | June 2, 2024 20:00 | 2h 30m | 1,473 | 745 |
| 8 | December 26, 2024 14:15 | December 26, 2024 17:15 | 3h | 1,356 | 4,068 |
| 9 | June 25, 2024 13:00 | June 25, 2024 17:45 | 4h 45m | 1,349 | 6,408 |
| 10 | July 15, 2024 23:30 | July 16, 2024 21:30 | 22h | 1,040 | 7,422 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 46 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 Wetzel 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 |
| Wheeling Power Co | 2024 | 11.0 hrs | 2.31 | 11.0 hrs | 2.31 |
| City of New Martinsville - (WV) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,256 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. Wetzel County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wetzel 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/wetzel-county