West Virginia power outages
Live outages across West Virginia from Mon Power and Appalachian Power, updated every 10 minutes. 22 counties have customers without power right now.
Right now
Elevated outages
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Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.1,530customers without power
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A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.Mon Power960 / 391,997
Appalachian Power570 / 449,019
Virginia Electric & Power Cono live feedServes part of the state, per federal utility records. Check its own outage map.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Wheeling Power Cono live feedServes part of the state, per federal utility records. Check its own outage map.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Black Diamond Power Cono live feedServes part of the state, per federal utility records. Check its own outage map.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Outage map
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Color shows the share of each county's customers without power right now.Counties with the most outages
36 counties with live data| County | Out | CustomersiA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way. | % outiCustomers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area. |
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| Mingo County | 397 | 12,991 | 3.06% |
| Preston County | 342 | – | – |
| Upshur County | 314 | – | – |
| Randolph County | 130 | – | – |
| Kanawha County | 106 | 95,474 | 0.11% |
| Lewis County | 83 | – | – |
| Monongalia County | 77 | – | – |
| Ohio County | 23 | 22,762 | 0.10% |
| Raleigh County | 18 | 38,056 | 0.05% |
| Cabell County | 10 | 49,223 | 0.02% |
| Lincoln County | 6 | 10,798 | 0.06% |
| Marion County | 5 | – | – |
| Braxton County | 3 | – | – |
| Wood County | 3 | – | – |
| Clay County | fewer than 5 | 1,917 | 0.10% |
Outage history in West Virginia
2014–2025 recordWest Virginia averaged 19.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, more than most states.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 23. Half were over within 6 hours; the longest lasted 2.7 days, starting January 6, 2025.
The largest on record began March 1, 2017, with 169,855 customers out at once.
19.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.4 hourstypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.9.7 dayslongest on record (February 2021)
169,855most customers out at once
| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| March 1, 2017 | 169,855 | 3.1 days | 4,292,627 |
| April 2, 2024 | 145,292 | 3.2 days | 4,996,148 |
| February 15, 2021 | 104,627 | 9.7 days | 10,034,963 |
| June 23, 2016 | 102,950 | 5.2 days | 4,640,129 |
| June 14, 2022 | 100,912 | 5.8 days | 4,411,629 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.
Counties in West Virginia
- Barbour County
- Berkeley County
- Boone County
- Braxton County
- Brooke County
- Cabell County
- Calhoun County
- Clay County
- Doddridge County
- Fayette County
- Gilmer County
- Grant County
- Greenbrier County
- Hampshire County
- Hancock County
- Hardy County
- Harrison County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Kanawha County
- Lewis County
- Lincoln County
- Logan County
- McDowell County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- Mason County
- Mercer County
- Mineral County
- Mingo County
- Monongalia County
- Monroe County
- Morgan County
- Nicholas County
- Ohio County
- Pendleton County
- Pleasants County
- Pocahontas County
- Preston County
- Putnam County
- Raleigh County
- Randolph County
- Ritchie County
- Roane County
- Summers County
- Taylor County
- Tucker County
- Tyler County
- Upshur County
- Wayne County
- Webster County
- Wetzel County
- Wirt County
- Wood County
- Wyoming County
Utilities
- Mon Power
- Appalachian Power
- Virginia Electric & Power Co no live feed
- Wheeling Power Co no live feed
- Black Diamond Power Co no live feed
- Harrison Rural Elec Assn, Inc no live feed
- Philippi Municipal Electric no live feed
- Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop no live feed
- City of New Martinsville - (WV) no live feed