Power Out Map
– 0% of Braxton out 0 customers out in West Virginia

Power outage history

Braxton County West Virginia

24hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

17th most of 55 in West Virginia 3.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 5, 2015 86% of customers out · 90% back in 3.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 24h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 12.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.5days Mar 5, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 43% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 47 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 7,157 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Braxton's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 47 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Braxton, hours without power per customer

BraxtonUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 20 40 60 80 100 75 ’15 34 ’16 47 ’17 16 ’18 21 ’19 17 ’20 11 ’21 23 ’22 20 ’23 40 ’24 47 ’25 WV 16 US 6.6

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
Mar 5, 2015 Winter storm 6,148 86% 4.5 d 3.2 d 179k
Mar 1, 2017 Thunderstorms 7,157 100% 3.1 d 2.1 d 167k
Jun 23, 2016 No storm report 7,157 100% 3.2 d 36 h 121k
Dec 19, 2025 Windstorm 3,796 53% 2.9 d 2.3 d 88k
Jul 14, 2015 Thunderstorms 4,384 61% 2.1 d 46 h 86k
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 4,476 63% 3.0 d 2.5 d 85k
May 11, 2015 Thunderstorms 2,952 41% 30 h 27 h 66k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 2,619 37% 3.0 d 46 h 48k
Feb 16, 2025 No storm report 5,241 73% 2.1 d 6.8 h 41k
Jun 20, 2015 Tropical Storm Bill 2,988 42% 32 h 21 h 39k
Jul 13, 2015 Flooding 2,116 30% 38 h 18 h 36k
Jan 12, 2024 Windstorm 1,164 16% 2.1 d 45 h 33k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +12h 90% by +48h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Braxton from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 57%
  • Thunderstorms 20%
  • Windstorm 18%
  • Winter storm 2.5%
  • Flooding 2.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Braxton

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
Monongahela Power Co Investor Owned 1,250 553 3.72 14.3 334k

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.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across West Virginia

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All West Virginia counties →

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 7,157 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 →