Clay County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Clay County, West Virginia had 82 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 10.12 times the US outage time per person and 3.23 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 2 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

9.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

138 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 23, 2016, reached 5,299 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 137.8 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	223,877	52	10
2016	501,945	46	7
2017	212,561	47	12
2018	86,310	53	7
2019	184,810	47	11
2020	110,955	47	7
2021	81,358	36	6
2022	182,289	54	12
2023	128,828	40	10

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 23, 2016	137.8	5,299	399,313
Mar 1, 2017	55.2	3,096	100,595
Jul 14, 2015	69.0	3,647	62,368
Jun 14, 2022	42.5	1,156	30,000
Feb 24, 2019	44.2	1,289	29,222

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.