Marshall County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Marshall County, West Virginia had 97 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.01 times the US outage time per person and 1.60 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 11 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

10.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

121 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 3, 2022, reached 9,644 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 121.0 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	123,957	66	5
2016	178,554	58	5
2017	320,130	70	15
2018	242,049	60	10
2019	313,236	67	10
2020	355,098	75	11
2021	366,585	62	14
2022	988,487	70	15
2023	350,989	52	12

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 3, 2022	121.0	9,644	536,200
Feb 24, 2019	78.5	4,838	123,900
Mar 25, 2023	51.2	5,411	120,856
Jul 23, 2022	72.2	4,756	102,618
Nov 15, 2020	20.8	4,536	76,670

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.