Lincoln County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lincoln County, West Virginia had 139 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 10.02 times the US outage time per person and 3.20 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 3 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

15.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

177 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 11, 2021, reached 8,046 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 177.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated West Virginia counties

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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	278,507	89	12
2016	319,356	109	13
2017	343,246	79	17
2018	412,902	76	21
2019	353,878	84	14
2020	295,659	95	16
2021	1,325,071	76	16
2022	537,101	76	19
2023	406,550	64	11

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 11, 2021	177.2	8,046	493,042
Feb 18, 2021	123.0	6,882	451,790
Jun 14, 2022	70.0	4,317	131,718
Mar 12, 2018	35.5	6,146	88,807
Mar 1, 2017	58.5	2,227	61,182

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.