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

Power outage history

Wirt County West Virginia

36hours

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

6th most of 55 in West Virginia 5.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 5, 2015 100% of customers out · 90% back in 4.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 36h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 10.3 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 5.7days Mar 4, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 29% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 2.8 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 2,813 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 Wirt'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wirt, hours without power per customer

WirtUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 101 ’15 29 ’16 59 ’17 22 ’18 39 ’19 35 ’20 28 ’21 68 ’22 41 ’23 22 ’24 36 ’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 2,813 100% 5.7 d 4.5 d 233k
Jun 13, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,813 100% 2.9 d 45 h 76k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 2,813 100% 3.4 d 40 h 59k
Nov 18, 2017 No storm report 2,813 100% 32 h 13 h 41k
Aug 12, 2022 No storm report 2,813 100% 14 h 14 h 38k
Feb 6, 2025 No storm report 2,813 100% 13 h 13 h 36k
Mar 25, 2023 No storm report 1,115 40% 3.1 d 46 h 35k
Jul 7, 2017 No storm report 2,756 98% 46 h 27 h 34k
Jan 22, 2022 No storm report 2,582 92% 21 h 13 h 33k
Jun 15, 2016 No storm report 2,813 100% 13 h 10 h 29k
Mar 29, 2020 No storm report 2,813 100% 20 h 8.5 h 27k
Apr 1, 2023 Windstorm 2,813 100% 29 h 4.8 h 24k

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

  • No storm on record 71%
  • Thunderstorms 14%
  • Windstorm 13%
  • Flooding 0.9%
  • Ice storm 0.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wirt

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+

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 2,813 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 →