Tyler County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Tyler County, West Virginia had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.88 times the US outage time per person and 1.87 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 9 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

60 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 5, 2015, reached 4,970 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 36.5 hours.

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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	364,934	24	4
2016	55,418	33	0
2017	154,442	31	4
2018	55,174	25	2
2019	91,396	33	2
2020	32,405	22	2
2021	35,233	19	1
2022	144,632	28	5
2023	80,869	29	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
Mar 5, 2015	36.5	4,970	140,204
Mar 6, 2015	34.2	4,506	113,188
Jul 7, 2017	46.5	4,422	77,421
Mar 8, 2015	60.5	2,238	75,320
Jun 17, 2022	45.5	4,065	56,440

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.