Logan County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Logan County, West Virginia had 89 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.14 times the US outage time per person and 1.32 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 16 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

9.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

118 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 1, 2017, reached 8,968 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 118.5 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	318,298	82	13
2016	262,210	77	8
2017	489,696	71	8
2018	248,697	80	8
2019	306,258	96	13
2020	208,264	73	4
2021	240,466	78	10
2022	384,620	82	16
2023	322,574	63	9

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 1, 2017	118.5	8,968	326,236
Jun 17, 2022	27.8	5,996	112,884
Apr 1, 2023	50.8	4,094	90,436
Jul 8, 2016	39.5	4,229	79,556
Oct 21, 2018	38.5	4,347	74,734

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.