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2025 Hardy County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Hardy County, WV went without power for an average of 21.6 hours, a total of 186K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.3 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 306th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with WV, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of West Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hardy County, 2025
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 9, 2025 11:00 | April 9, 2025 23:30 | 12h 30m | 4,886 | 52K |
| 2 | October 24, 2025 05:30 | October 24, 2025 08:15 | 2h 45m | 3,189 | 7,032 |
| 3 | June 5, 2025 02:15 | June 5, 2025 06:15 | 4h | 2,597 | 9,735 |
| 4 | March 16, 2025 15:45 | March 17, 2025 15:15 | 23h 30m | 2,014 | 6,438 |
| 5 | September 26, 2025 18:30 | September 26, 2025 23:00 | 4h 30m | 1,505 | 4,634 |
| 6 | October 2, 2025 13:15 | October 2, 2025 19:15 | 6h | 1,207 | 7,084 |
| 7 | February 16, 2025 19:15 | February 19, 2025 07:00 | 2d 11h | 1,156 | 15K |
| 8 | October 19, 2025 17:15 | October 20, 2025 22:15 | 1d 5h | 988 | 7,877 |
| 9 | August 14, 2025 23:45 | August 15, 2025 14:45 | 15h | 982 | 3,231 |
| 10 | June 23, 2025 13:15 | June 23, 2025 21:30 | 8h 15m | 872 | 1,101 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 50 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/west-virginia/hardy-county