Mineral County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Mineral County, West Virginia had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.05 times the US outage time per person and 0.33 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 46 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Febhardest months

November and February made up 30% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 4, 2023, reached 4,674 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 36.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	69,652	27	0
2016	54,152	36	0
2017	67,134	29	2
2018	49,435	24	1
2019	148,444	39	5
2020	22,084	15	0
2021	41,173	18	0
2022	85,604	24	2
2023	78,708	19	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
Mar 4, 2023	36.0	4,674	53,957
Feb 24, 2019	48.2	1,851	46,693
Nov 27, 2019	22.8	3,140	27,968
Dec 23, 2022	36.5	1,990	24,866
Dec 15, 2022	35.0	1,181	20,991

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.