Pleasants County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pleasants County, West Virginia had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.53 times the US outage time per person and 1.13 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 22 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 5, 2015, reached 2,838 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 38.8 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	169,255	17	3
2016	67,354	41	2
2017	62,220	22	1
2018	41,725	25	1
2019	46,504	22	2
2020	14,306	14	0
2021	16,920	13	1
2022	61,481	18	3
2023	91,608	21	2

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
Mar 5, 2015	38.8	2,838	62,802
Mar 6, 2015	34.2	2,504	51,944
Mar 25, 2023	48.0	1,940	44,303
Mar 8, 2015	40.0	1,310	36,597
Jun 16, 2022	33.0	1,915	34,838

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.