Greenbrier County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Greenbrier County, West Virginia had 36 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

4.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

110 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 23, 2016, reached 38,702 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 110.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	247,403	106	5
2016	1,755,413	78	3
2017	320,462	68	5
2018	301,519	68	4
2019	182,010	66	2
2020	156,401	57	1
2021	237,819	45	2
2022	230,460	63	9
2023	274,748	47	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
Jun 23, 2016	110.5	38,702	1,447,989
Jul 28, 2023	68.8	5,613	168,339
Mar 1, 2017	74.2	9,984	158,762
Feb 24, 2019	64.0	3,243	70,921
Jul 1, 2016	3.0	24,319	69,557

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.
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