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

Power outage history

Ritchie County West Virginia

33hours

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

10th most of 55 in West Virginia 5.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 5, 2015 100% of customers out · 90% back in 5.6 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 33h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 12.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6.8days Mar 4, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 46% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 2.4 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,984 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 Ritchie's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.4 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Ritchie, hours without power per customer

RitchieUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 93 ’15 33 ’16 29 ’17 19 ’18 30 ’19 26 ’20 31 ’21 40 ’22 36 ’23 24 ’24 57 ’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
Mar 4, 2015 Winter storm 4,984 100% 6.8 d 5.6 d 341k
Dec 19, 2025 Windstorm 3,171 64% 2.4 d 36 h 70k
Mar 25, 2023 Windstorm 1,784 36% 3.4 d 2.9 d 70k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 1,650 33% 4.2 d 3.1 d 50k
Jun 13, 2022 No storm report 1,682 34% 46 h 35 h 36k
Apr 2, 2016 Windstorm 2,980 60% 25 h 23 h 35k
Jun 16, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,807 36% 2.7 d 43 h 33k
Aug 24, 2021 No storm report 3,166 64% 11 h 12 h 32k
Aug 3, 2020 No storm report 4,984 100% 6.8 h 8.0 h 32k
May 30, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,284 26% 2.2 d 25 h 31k
Feb 15, 2021 Winter storm 1,850 37% 30 h 21 h 27k
Apr 17, 2024 No storm report 1,886 38% 17 h 14 h 26k

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 +14h 90% by +24h

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

  • No storm on record 54%
  • Windstorm 23%
  • Thunderstorms 16%
  • Winter storm 4.4%
  • Flooding 1.8%
  • Tropical storm 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Ritchie

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

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 4,984 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 →