Fayette County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fayette County, West Virginia had 102 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.13 times the US outage time per person and 1.32 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 17 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

11.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

105 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 1, 2017, reached 17,254 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 105.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	348,304	114	15
2016	319,329	80	9
2017	932,314	96	14
2018	374,428	116	17
2019	251,488	96	11
2020	246,024	102	10
2021	256,802	75	8
2022	416,477	90	11
2023	367,436	79	7

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 1, 2017	105.0	17,254	580,425
Jun 17, 2022	27.0	9,402	125,911
Jul 28, 2023	52.2	5,842	119,909
Apr 1, 2023	28.2	8,160	97,068
Jun 24, 2016	61.8	3,056	95,032

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.