– 0% of Marshall out 0 customers out in West Virginia

Power outage history

Marshall County West Virginia

24hours

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

18th most of 55 in West Virginia 3.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 4, 2022 47% of customers out · 90% back in 3.9 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 24h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 5.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 13.7days Jun 26, 2025, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 42% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2022 2.2 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 20,592 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 Marshall'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 2.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Marshall, hours without power per customer

MarshallUS median countyWest Virginia average

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	9,644	47%	6.0 d	3.9 d	543k
Jun 26, 2025	Flooding	2,720	13%	13.7 d	13.6 d	442k
Mar 25, 2023	No storm report	5,411	26%	2.9 d	46 h	127k
Feb 24, 2019	Windstorm	4,838	23%	3.3 d	43 h	124k
Nov 15, 2020	No storm report	4,536	22%	2.3 d	2.1 d	120k
Jul 23, 2022	No storm report	4,756	23%	3.0 d	44 h	103k
Feb 17, 2022	No storm report	2,771	13%	48 h	44 h	56k
Apr 17, 2024	No storm report	5,108	25%	18 h	12 h	52k
Mar 29, 2020	No storm report	3,358	16%	32 h	27 h	48k
Jun 16, 2022	No storm report	2,015	10%	47 h	5.2 h	45k
Jan 10, 2016	No storm report	3,355	16%	2.3 d	29 h	44k
Jul 28, 2017	Flooding	2,531	12%	44 h	33 h	41k
Dec 11, 2021	No storm report	1,558	8%	2.1 d	38 h	40k
Jun 14, 2022	No storm report	865	4%	2.5 d	–	37k
Jul 20, 2023	No storm report	3,804	18%	15 h	13 h	35k
Nov 1, 2020	No storm report	2,467	12%	33 h	29 h	33k
May 13, 2016	No storm report	3,288	16%	10 h	3.2 h	33k
Jun 21, 2021	Flooding	2,156	10%	28 h	24 h	31k
Oct 31, 2019	No storm report	1,327	6%	43 h	30 h	31k
Aug 11, 2021	No storm report	1,935	9%	29 h	24 h	30k
Feb 7, 2018	Winter storm	1,725	8%	32 h	27 h	30k
Aug 18, 2017	No storm report	1,382	7%	26 h	22 h	29k
Mar 1, 2017	Thunderstorms	1,969	10%	30 h	11 h	29k
Mar 26, 2021	No storm report	3,488	17%	18 h	5.8 h	29k
Nov 27, 2019	No storm report	1,630	8%	29 h	21 h	28k
Nov 27, 2022	No storm report	1,940	9%	29 h	19 h	28k
Apr 29, 2025	Thunderstorms	3,008	15%	24 h	20 h	28k
Aug 4, 2017	Thunderstorms	1,389	7%	30 h	8.8 h	28k
Mar 7, 2022	No storm report	1,487	7%	33 h	24 h	27k
May 3, 2022	Thunderstorms	3,990	19%	22 h	18 h	25k

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

No storm on record 58%
Flooding 16%
Ice storm 16%
Thunderstorms 3.8%
Windstorm 3.6%
Winter storm 1.7%
Tropical storm 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Marshall

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
Wheeling Power Co	Investor Owned	706	426	2.26	17.6	34k

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

Marshall (this county) 24 h
Wetzel 14 h
Ohio 12 h
Greene, PA 12 h
Monroe, OH 11 h
Washington, PA 7.5 h
Belmont, OH 6.9 h

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 20,592 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 →