Jackson County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jackson County, West Virginia had 63 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.79 times the US outage time per person and 1.53 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 12 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

7.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

123 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 5,785 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 70.8 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	485,662	87	8
2016	303,848	74	10
2017	186,069	53	6
2018	231,412	65	3
2019	220,609	64	7
2020	186,284	55	7
2021	727,718	66	7
2022	329,645	63	10
2023	248,667	38	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
Feb 15, 2021	70.8	5,785	276,824
Feb 18, 2021	123.0	3,573	241,332
Jun 14, 2022	60.8	6,258	120,670
Mar 25, 2023	53.5	6,007	98,181
Feb 11, 2021	68.0	2,757	82,250

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.