Ohio County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ohio County, West Virginia had 56 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.80 times the US outage time per person and 0.89 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 31 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

113 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Febhardest months

June and February made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 15,804 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 112.8 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	87,988	54	4
2016	106,648	54	4
2017	157,221	65	6
2018	211,322	96	6
2019	279,936	63	5
2020	210,433	67	8
2021	210,904	72	8
2022	1,102,012	64	9
2023	163,996	58	6

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 14, 2022	112.8	15,804	615,017
Feb 3, 2022	113.0	6,117	270,347
Feb 24, 2019	74.2	4,003	91,425
Jul 23, 2022	47.0	3,000	64,498
Jun 30, 2021	25.0	6,097	61,467

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.