Jefferson County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jefferson County, West Virginia had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.54 times the US outage time per person and 0.17 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 47 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 25% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 14, 2018, reached 3,732 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 37.0 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	144,522	61	2
2016	64,189	50	0
2017	58,342	36	1
2018	97,553	29	2
2019	94,010	38	2
2020	42,736	29	2
2021	82,327	36	3
2022	79,261	39	1
2023	58,910	37	1

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
May 14, 2018	37.0	3,732	47,946
Feb 24, 2019	46.5	2,935	41,668
Mar 2, 2018	39.8	2,465	27,526
Aug 17, 2015	1.5	20,930	27,087
Jul 6, 2020	17.2	2,463	20,416

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.