Power outage history
Boone County West Virginia
24hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
15th most of 55 in West Virginia 3.7× the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Boone's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 35 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Boone, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 2016 | Wildfire | 5,483 | 42% | 4.5 d | 3.7 d | 245k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 5,379 | 41% | 3.5 d | 3.0 d | 206k |
| May 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,081 | 31% | 2.1 d | 29 h | 118k |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 406 | 3% | 13.7 d | – | 107k |
| Apr 14, 2016 | No storm report | 2,077 | 16% | 3.0 d | 27 h | 83k |
| Jul 13, 2015 | No storm report | 3,981 | 30% | 2.9 d | 41 h | 81k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,245 | 32% | 2.0 d | 31 h | 79k |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,160 | 24% | 2.6 d | 44 h | 73k |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,671 | 20% | 2.7 d | 37 h | 63k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,112 | 31% | 2.1 d | 32 h | 59k |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Windstorm | 2,448 | 19% | 41 h | 32 h | 42k |
| Jun 11, 2025 | No storm report | 4,488 | 34% | 15 h | 13 h | 40k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,221 | 9% | 2.6 d | 2.2 d | 37k |
| Mar 12, 2018 | Winter storm | 2,737 | 21% | 32 h | 24 h | 36k |
| Feb 15, 2025 | Flooding | 2,626 | 20% | 2.0 d | 27 h | 35k |
| Feb 28, 2021 | Flooding | 1,365 | 10% | 2.1 d | 34 h | 31k |
| Aug 13, 2017 | No storm report | 3,473 | 27% | 7.5 h | 12 h | 26k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 1,109 | 8% | 2.0 d | 42 h | 26k |
| Oct 23, 2022 | No storm report | 1,293 | 10% | 28 h | 28 h | 25k |
| Aug 17, 2021 | Tropical Storm Fred | 1,871 | 14% | 20 h | 7.5 h | 25k |
| Jul 30, 2019 | No storm report | 1,267 | 10% | 18 h | 18 h | 23k |
| Jul 8, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,024 | 8% | 40 h | 39 h | 23k |
| Aug 21, 2022 | Flooding | 2,251 | 17% | 16 h | 11 h | 22k |
| Jul 28, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 703 | 5% | 47 h | 5.5 h | 21k |
| Jun 13, 2021 | Flooding | 1,708 | 13% | 21 h | 20 h | 21k |
| Jun 22, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,299 | 10% | 24 h | 11 h | 21k |
| Oct 20, 2018 | Windstorm | 929 | 7% | 42 h | 32 h | 20k |
| Jul 20, 2018 | No storm report | 1,655 | 13% | 21 h | 4.0 h | 20k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Windstorm | 697 | 5% | 2.1 d | 40 h | 20k |
| Jul 28, 2022 | No storm report | 1,630 | 12% | 16 h | 10 h | 19k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Boone from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 49%
- Thunderstorms 30%
- Windstorm 8.4%
- Flooding 7.1%
- Winter storm 3.1%
- Tropical storm 2.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Boone
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole West Virginia territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | Investor Owned | 1,035 | 546 | 2.98 | 17.0 | 348k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 13,090 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →