Grant County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Grant County, West Virginia had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.43 times the US outage time per person and 0.78 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 34 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

40 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 25, 2019, reached 2,403 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 40.2 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	58,855	27	0
2016	84,470	31	1
2017	71,918	24	2
2018	31,864	13	2
2019	108,817	26	3
2020	35,907	16	0
2021	38,543	20	0
2022	97,968	38	6
2023	58,734	30	3

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
Feb 25, 2019	40.2	2,403	55,524
Feb 16, 2016	35.0	6,472	48,062
Jul 8, 2017	5.2	4,166	21,547
Feb 24, 2019	7.5	2,997	19,340
Mar 4, 2023	29.2	1,778	18,700

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.