Monroe County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Monroe County, West Virginia had 26 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.51 times the US outage time per person and 1.12 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 23 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

58 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 24, 2016, reached 6,337 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 38.0 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	47,895	22	0
2016	298,775	29	2
2017	118,131	20	2
2018	111,201	29	6
2019	83,863	21	4
2020	24,747	21	0
2021	98,187	38	5
2022	90,153	32	4
2023	89,509	19	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
Jun 24, 2016	38.0	6,337	125,996
Jul 19, 2017	20.0	4,494	85,012
Jul 8, 2016	42.5	6,020	70,630
Jul 28, 2023	52.8	3,691	55,653
Mar 21, 2018	58.2	2,052	52,068

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.