Power outage history
Pleasants County West Virginia
13hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
40th most of 55 in West Virginia 2.0× 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 Pleasants's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 25 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Pleasants, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 2015 | Winter storm | 2,838 | 63% | 5.7 d | 4.1 d | 154k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | No storm report | 1,940 | 43% | 3.3 d | 27 h | 49k |
| Jun 16, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,915 | 43% | 3.1 d | 32 h | 41k |
| Jul 7, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 3,394 | 75% | 2.2 d | 27 h | 34k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 1,450 | 32% | 3.1 d | 28 h | 25k |
| Mar 4, 2023 | No storm report | 3,586 | 80% | 14 h | 6.0 h | 18k |
| Apr 27, 2016 | No storm report | 100 | 2% | 5.6 d | – | 13k |
| Aug 16, 2016 | No storm report | 2,386 | 53% | 23 h | 5.2 h | 10k |
| Jul 25, 2023 | No storm report | 950 | 21% | 14 h | 5.0 h | 8.5k |
| Jun 3, 2019 | No storm report | 3,475 | 77% | 4.8 h | 4.8 h | 7.3k |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Windstorm | 1,029 | 23% | 44 h | 5.5 h | 7.3k |
| Sep 22, 2025 | No storm report | 642 | 14% | 11 h | 7.2 h | 6.9k |
| Apr 19, 2015 | No storm report | 1,962 | 44% | 9.5 h | 6.5 h | 6.8k |
| May 3, 2022 | No storm report | 768 | 17% | 21 h | 17 h | 6.7k |
| Apr 2, 2016 | Windstorm | 782 | 17% | 17 h | 14 h | 6.4k |
| Jul 3, 2017 | No storm report | 1,790 | 40% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 6.3k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Winter storm | 521 | 12% | 18 h | 4.8 h | 6.0k |
| Jul 6, 2016 | No storm report | 386 | 9% | 17 h | 14 h | 5.7k |
| Sep 27, 2025 | No storm report | 1,155 | 26% | 14 h | 14 h | 5.4k |
| Feb 17, 2022 | No storm report | 402 | 9% | 26 h | 24 h | 5.2k |
| Sep 30, 2020 | No storm report | 3,590 | 80% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 4.9k |
| Mar 5, 2023 | No storm report | 1,215 | 27% | 4.0 h | 3.5 h | 4.9k |
| Jul 23, 2022 | No storm report | 245 | 5% | 21 h | 21 h | 4.8k |
| Sep 23, 2018 | No storm report | 2,429 | 54% | 2.0 h | 1.5 h | 4.3k |
| Sep 26, 2018 | No storm report | 1,063 | 24% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 4.3k |
| Apr 9, 2016 | No storm report | 1,796 | 40% | 4.0 h | 2.0 h | 4.2k |
| Oct 11, 2024 | No storm report | 1,201 | 27% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 4.2k |
| Feb 25, 2016 | No storm report | 540 | 12% | 8.0 h | 1.5 h | 4.2k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | No storm report | 262 | 6% | 21 h | 13 h | 4.0k |
| Jul 20, 2018 | No storm report | 1,204 | 27% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 3.9k |
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 Pleasants from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 75%
- Thunderstorms 11%
- Windstorm 9.8%
- Winter storm 2.6%
- Flooding 0.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Pleasants
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
- Ritchie 33 h
- Tyler 20 h
- Pleasants (this county) 13 h
- Washington, OH 5.3 h
- Wood 5.0 h
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 4,505 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 →