Power outage history
Nicholas County West Virginia
20hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
27th most of 55 in West Virginia 3.0× 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 Nicholas's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Nicholas, 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 2, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 10,548 | 72% | 3.3 d | 3.0 d | 452k |
| Jun 23, 2016 | Flooding | 7,432 | 50% | 3.6 d | 32 h | 323k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 7,534 | 51% | 3.1 d | 2.0 d | 174k |
| May 26, 2024 | No storm report | 5,471 | 37% | 3.1 d | 2.4 d | 171k |
| Jul 28, 2023 | No storm report | 3,773 | 26% | 3.1 d | 2.6 d | 139k |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Windstorm | 3,807 | 26% | 3.9 d | 2.1 d | 115k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Winter storm | 5,281 | 36% | 2.1 d | 24 h | 63k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | No storm report | 3,459 | 23% | 47 h | 6.0 h | 48k |
| Jun 13, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 3,038 | 21% | 25 h | 24 h | 43k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Flooding | 2,259 | 15% | 48 h | 46 h | 35k |
| Jun 20, 2015 | Tropical Storm Bill | 2,724 | 19% | 25 h | 1.8 h | 34k |
| Jul 13, 2015 | Flooding | 1,960 | 13% | 36 h | 20 h | 32k |
| Mar 21, 2018 | No storm report | 4,159 | 28% | 34 h | 22 h | 29k |
| Jun 22, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,641 | 11% | 21 h | 6.0 h | 27k |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,523 | 10% | 17 h | 14 h | 25k |
| Apr 4, 2015 | No storm report | 1,286 | 9% | 19 h | 14 h | 23k |
| Feb 15, 2016 | No storm report | 5,074 | 34% | 4.8 h | 1.8 h | 23k |
| Feb 25, 2017 | No storm report | 6,459 | 44% | 6.5 h | 12 min | 22k |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Windstorm | 1,600 | 11% | 33 h | 9.5 h | 20k |
| Oct 20, 2018 | No storm report | 1,442 | 10% | 38 h | 37 h | 19k |
| Apr 14, 2020 | No storm report | 2,418 | 16% | 15 h | 3.8 h | 18k |
| May 1, 2017 | No storm report | 2,200 | 15% | 33 h | 2.5 h | 18k |
| Jan 25, 2023 | No storm report | 2,513 | 17% | 11 h | 6.0 h | 16k |
| Feb 28, 2020 | No storm report | 679 | 5% | 26 h | – | 16k |
| Apr 13, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,344 | 9% | 17 h | 14 h | 15k |
| Jun 15, 2021 | No storm report | 2,119 | 14% | 12 h | 8.8 h | 14k |
| Jun 25, 2025 | No storm report | 2,538 | 17% | 5.5 h | 4.0 h | 14k |
| May 16, 2015 | No storm report | 2,796 | 19% | 4.8 h | 13 h | 13k |
| Dec 1, 2018 | No storm report | 1,155 | 8% | 25 h | 22 h | 13k |
| Apr 2, 2015 | No storm report | 1,967 | 13% | 6.8 h | 2.5 h | 13k |
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 Nicholas from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 57%
- Thunderstorms 29%
- Windstorm 7.8%
- Winter storm 3.6%
- Flooding 2.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Nicholas
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 |
| 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
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 14,725 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 →