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2025 Preston County, WV Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Preston County, WV went without power for an average of 13.9 hours, a total of 263K customer-hours (West Virginia average 18.3 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 55 West Virginia counties and 554th 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 Preston 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 | December 27, 2025 20:30 | December 27, 2025 23:00 | 2h 30m | 4,988 | 2,531 |
| 2 | December 19, 2025 08:45 | December 22, 2025 22:00 | 3d 13h | 3,358 | 16K |
| 3 | April 19, 2025 22:30 | April 24, 2025 05:15 | 4d 6h | 3,181 | 86K |
| 4 | August 12, 2025 11:15 | August 12, 2025 23:30 | 12h 15m | 2,556 | 17K |
| 5 | November 10, 2025 19:00 | November 11, 2025 09:30 | 14h 30m | 2,123 | 9,429 |
| 6 | July 30, 2025 13:30 | July 31, 2025 05:00 | 15h 30m | 1,871 | 4,173 |
| 7 | January 1, 2025 05:30 | January 2, 2025 02:45 | 21h 15m | 1,710 | 2,635 |
| 8 | May 30, 2025 19:45 | June 2, 2025 06:15 | 2d 10h | 1,525 | 11K |
| 9 | February 6, 2025 10:00 | February 6, 2025 17:30 | 7h 30m | 1,512 | 3,393 |
| 10 | July 17, 2025 20:30 | July 18, 2025 14:30 | 18h | 1,332 | 8,448 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 71 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; 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, 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/preston-county