Hardy County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hardy County, West Virginia had 24 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.73 times the US outage time per person and 0.87 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 32 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

83 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Dechardest months

February and December made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2022, reached 2,938 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 83.0 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	70,082	45	2
2016	143,136	49	1
2017	99,026	34	4
2018	72,760	21	1
2019	113,940	21	2
2020	23,594	25	0
2021	43,812	28	4
2022	254,049	34	6
2023	41,666	37	4

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
Dec 15, 2022	83.0	2,938	142,954
Feb 24, 2019	74.0	2,275	96,315
Feb 16, 2016	60.0	3,406	81,245
Mar 2, 2018	62.8	3,310	49,730
Jul 12, 2022	43.5	2,977	45,252

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.