Doddridge County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Doddridge County, West Virginia had 46 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 6.03 times the US outage time per person and 1.92 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 8 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

60 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 5, 2015, reached 3,796 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 39.0 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	300,111	34	6
2016	167,463	53	9
2017	206,157	43	11
2018	53,088	30	2
2019	77,974	26	3
2020	32,031	34	1
2021	53,741	17	5
2022	56,911	27	4
2023	63,537	27	5

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	39.0	3,796	114,415
Mar 6, 2015	34.2	4,004	79,218
Mar 8, 2015	60.0	1,812	44,456
Feb 24, 2019	57.5	2,715	42,036
Mar 25, 2023	28.5	1,088	25,322

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.