Mason County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Mason County, West Virginia had 48 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.95 times the US outage time per person and 1.26 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 19 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

181 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 11, 2021, reached 4,603 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 181.2 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	171,083	51	6
2016	108,128	58	7
2017	66,382	33	3
2018	198,390	65	3
2019	177,431	64	6
2020	111,071	47	4
2021	821,422	30	7
2022	257,474	62	8
2023	239,529	41	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
Feb 11, 2021	181.2	4,603	389,108
Feb 18, 2021	123.0	3,203	267,725
Jun 14, 2022	49.8	3,325	90,772
Feb 23, 2021	99.0	1,679	72,497
Mar 4, 2023	42.5	2,593	63,290

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.