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

Power outage history

Taylor County West Virginia

9.5hours

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

46th most of 55 in West Virginia 1.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 6, 2015 33% of customers out · 90% back in 2.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 9.5h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.5days Mar 4, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 56% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 20 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,762 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 Taylor'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 20 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Taylor, hours without power per customer

TaylorUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 5 10 15 20 25 21 ’15 17 ’16 19 ’17 8.4 ’18 8.4 ’19 7.4 ’20 7.9 ’21 9.6 ’22 7.4 ’23 6.6 ’24 20 ’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 2,908 33% 4.5 d 2.2 d 109k
Dec 19, 2025 Windstorm 4,912 56% 2.6 d 39 h 75k
Jul 29, 2017 Flooding 4,080 47% 16 h 6.5 h 39k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 1,695 19% 2.1 d 46 h 31k
May 30, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,229 14% 48 h 31 h 25k
May 26, 2024 Flooding 1,008 12% 2.4 d 2.3 d 24k
Mar 25, 2023 No storm report 1,179 13% 42 h 22 h 22k
Jun 14, 2021 Thunderstorms 2,837 32% 26 h 19 h 21k
Jun 8, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,196 25% 21 h 18 h 20k
Apr 26, 2017 No storm report 4,846 55% 9.5 h 3.5 h 19k
Jul 15, 2016 Thunderstorms 1,446 17% 27 h 22 h 18k
Apr 20, 2015 No storm report 1,560 18% 18 h 1.0 h 18k

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 +22h

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

  • No storm on record 44%
  • Thunderstorms 25%
  • Windstorm 23%
  • Flooding 4.6%
  • Winter storm 3.1%
  • Tropical storm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Taylor

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
Harrison Rural Elec Assn, Inc WV 564 564 5.58 – 60k

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 8,762 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 →