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

Power outage history

Morgan County West Virginia

14hours

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

36th most of 55 in West Virginia 2.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 20, 2025 71% of customers out · 90% back in 45 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 14h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 8.3 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 3.3days Apr 19, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 61% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 29 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,772 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 Morgan'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 29 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Morgan, hours without power per customer

MorganUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 10 20 30 40 6.4 ’15 15 ’16 7.7 ’17 14 ’18 15 ’19 5.2 ’20 7.1 ’21 29 ’22 10 ’23 8.8 ’24 24 ’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
Apr 19, 2025 Thunderstorms 6,253 71% 3.3 d 45 h 125k
Dec 15, 2022 Ice storm 3,980 45% 2.7 d 45 h 70k
Jul 23, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,677 31% 48 h 36 h 64k
Mar 1, 2018 Windstorm 2,749 31% 2.1 d 32 h 60k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 3,360 38% 2.5 d 13 h 53k
Dec 23, 2022 Winter storm 4,304 49% 2.5 d 22 h 38k
Jun 16, 2016 Thunderstorms 3,766 43% 21 h 12 h 23k
Nov 20, 2016 No storm report 4,588 52% 7.8 h 2.0 h 19k
May 15, 2016 No storm report 4,536 52% 5.0 h 4.5 h 19k
Feb 12, 2019 Winter storm 1,075 12% 44 h 32 h 18k
Feb 12, 2017 Windstorm 2,192 25% 32 h 16 h 18k
Mar 4, 2023 No storm report 2,870 33% 13 h 5.5 h 17k

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 +6h 90% by +16h

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

  • No storm on record 39%
  • Thunderstorms 27%
  • Windstorm 13%
  • Winter storm 9.2%
  • Ice storm 7.7%
  • Flooding 3.3%
  • Tropical storm 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Morgan

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
The Potomac Edison Company Investor Owned 440 249 1.96 13.1 138k

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+

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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 8,772 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 →