Monongalia County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Monongalia County, West Virginia had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.29 times the US outage time per person and 0.41 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 44 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

47 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2016, reached 27,958 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 31.0 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	717,807	106	7
2016	836,485	106	4
2017	298,768	80	5
2018	158,447	75	1
2019	232,831	82	5
2020	287,508	96	6
2021	136,433	80	2
2022	201,235	84	2
2023	223,995	83	3

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
Jun 16, 2016	31.0	27,958	437,550
Mar 5, 2015	39.2	10,980	238,680
Apr 13, 2020	34.0	13,280	111,796
Jul 22, 2017	31.2	5,446	81,556
Feb 24, 2019	46.8	3,883	75,915

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.