Wetzel County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.24 times the US outage time per person and 1.35 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 15 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

64 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 5, 2015, reached 6,028 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 40.0 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	445,907	59	5
2016	115,902	62	2
2017	278,569	51	7
2018	52,756	28	1
2019	104,765	41	6
2020	69,948	37	2
2021	49,387	22	4
2022	61,470	26	5
2023	106,872	33	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	40.0	6,028	165,479
Mar 6, 2015	34.2	8,502	121,802
Jul 7, 2017	48.0	3,320	88,338
Mar 8, 2015	63.5	3,000	61,340
Mar 25, 2023	47.0	3,044	43,911

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.