Wirt County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Wirt County, West Virginia had 27 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

59 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 5, 2015, reached 3,706 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 40.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	269,684	18	5
2016	92,108	23	1
2017	157,236	27	5
2018	37,288	14	1
2019	89,288	12	1
2020	84,841	20	3
2021	62,295	16	3
2022	182,110	17	4
2023	93,235	27	4

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	40.5	3,706	100,544
Mar 6, 2015	34.2	4,372	85,494
Jun 14, 2022	46.2	3,671	84,317
Jun 15, 2016	10.2	6,808	66,708
Feb 24, 2019	51.8	3,563	61,633

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

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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.
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