Hampshire County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hampshire County, West Virginia had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.51 times the US outage time per person and 1.12 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 23 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

108 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Febhardest months

December and February made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2022, reached 9,399 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 108.2 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	98,752	40	2
2016	125,150	58	2
2017	186,786	58	1
2018	144,094	52	3
2019	393,490	44	4
2020	56,209	46	1
2021	87,863	61	2
2022	698,040	63	5
2023	45,943	29	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
Dec 15, 2022	108.2	9,399	452,973
Feb 24, 2019	94.5	5,971	241,387
Feb 13, 2017	27.8	5,692	85,453
Dec 23, 2022	53.8	3,817	83,872
Mar 2, 2018	63.8	6,754	63,922

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.