Berkeley County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Berkeley County, West Virginia had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.24 times the US outage time per person and 0.08 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 48 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

44 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Febhardest months

July and February made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 24, 2019, reached 3,685 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 44.5 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	68,918	49	0
2016	88,568	59	0
2017	84,410	48	2
2018	66,376	28	2
2019	84,306	21	1
2020	50,828	32	2
2021	74,879	52	1
2022	142,827	47	3
2023	44,291	36	0

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 24, 2019	44.5	3,685	48,524
Jul 23, 2022	24.5	7,826	42,974
Mar 2, 2018	38.0	4,465	34,057
Feb 13, 2017	9.8	4,262	20,434
Dec 24, 2022	17.2	1,249	16,042

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.