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

Power outage history

Ohio County West Virginia

12hours

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

41st most of 55 in West Virginia 1.9× the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 14, 2022 48% of customers out · 90% back in 3.3 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 12h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 22hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.4days Jun 14, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 67% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 36 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 32,858 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 Ohio'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 36 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Ohio, hours without power per customer

OhioUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 10 20 30 40 50 3.8 ’15 4.8 ’16 6.7 ’17 9.2 ’18 11 ’19 8.8 ’20 9.0 ’21 36 ’22 6.9 ’23 7.1 ’24 10 ’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
Jun 14, 2022 Thunderstorms 15,804 48% 4.4 d 3.3 d 613k
Feb 3, 2022 Ice storm 6,117 19% 4.1 d 3.3 d 266k
Jun 14, 2025 Flooding 3,110 9% 2.7 d 2.0 d 111k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 4,003 12% 2.4 d 33 h 87k
Apr 29, 2025 Thunderstorms 5,872 18% 27 h 23 h 69k
Jun 30, 2021 Thunderstorms 6,097 19% 25 h 22 h 61k
Jul 23, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,000 9% 31 h 30 h 56k
Oct 31, 2019 Windstorm 2,937 9% 29 h 19 h 50k
Mar 25, 2023 Windstorm 3,562 11% 30 h 29 h 44k
Nov 15, 2020 Thunderstorms 2,789 8% 31 h 40 h 40k
Jul 16, 2018 No storm report 3,672 11% 13 h 11 h 34k
Dec 29, 2024 No storm report 4,274 13% 21 h 18 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 +30h

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

  • Thunderstorms 40%
  • No storm on record 33%
  • Ice storm 11%
  • Windstorm 8.5%
  • Flooding 6.2%
  • Winter storm 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Ohio

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

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 32,858 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 →