Nicholas County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Nicholas County, West Virginia had 49 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.63 times the US outage time per person and 1.16 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 20 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

81 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 23, 2016, reached 7,432 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.2 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	207,600	80	10
2016	457,618	56	6
2017	332,631	57	6
2018	169,958	59	6
2019	79,999	33	3
2020	140,819	53	4
2021	122,472	32	5
2022	142,964	45	6
2023	262,788	48	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 23, 2016	81.2	7,432	322,310
Mar 1, 2017	57.5	7,534	170,442
Jul 28, 2023	71.2	3,773	138,537
Jun 13, 2021	25.0	3,038	43,351
Mar 3, 2023	27.8	3,459	38,409

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.