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

Power outage history

Hancock County West Virginia

10hours

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

44th most of 55 in West Virginia 1.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 3, 2022 54% of customers out · 90% back in 22 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 10h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8.6days May 8, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 46% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 17 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 17,028 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 Hancock'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 17 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Hancock, hours without power per customer

HancockUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 5 10 15 20 4.4 ’15 6.1 ’16 7.1 ’17 9.4 ’18 7.6 ’19 5.2 ’20 6.0 ’21 17 ’22 12 ’23 9.1 ’24 14 ’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
Feb 3, 2022 Ice storm 9,190 54% 46 h 22 h 194k
Apr 29, 2025 Thunderstorms 7,180 42% 2.1 d 22 h 111k
Aug 20, 2018 No storm report 4,094 24% 33 h 31 h 90k
May 8, 2024 Tornadoes 1,056 6% 8.6 d 8.3 d 72k
Apr 1, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,633 15% 2.0 d 30 h 62k
Mar 25, 2023 No storm report 3,616 21% 45 h 22 h 48k
Nov 4, 2017 No storm report 3,246 19% 9.5 h 19 h 29k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 2,601 15% 46 h 2.5 h 28k
Jul 20, 2016 No storm report 8,246 48% 3.5 h 13 h 27k
May 9, 2025 No storm report 4,047 24% 7.5 h 7.2 h 24k
Oct 25, 2023 No storm report 2,216 13% 11 h 11 h 24k
Nov 12, 2018 No storm report 3,922 23% 9.5 h 13 h 21k

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 +8h 90% by +22h

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 Hancock from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 54%
  • Thunderstorms 20%
  • Ice storm 16%
  • Tornadoes 5.8%
  • Windstorm 2.3%
  • Winter storm 1.5%
  • Flooding 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Hancock

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 17,028 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 →