Power outages in Benwood, WV
Live outages for Benwood and the surrounding area, updated every 10 minutes. Benwood has 1,196 residents.
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Normal: scattered outages
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Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.fewer than 5customers without power in Marshall County
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A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.i
Utilities hide very small outages for privacy and publish them only as "fewer than 5". Where many of these add up, we show an estimate ("about …").Outage map
BenwoodMarshall County
Outage history in Marshall County, which includes Benwood
2014–2025 recordMarshall County averaged 44 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for West Virginia counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 48. Half were over within 3.5 hours; the longest lasted 33 hours, starting June 27, 2025.
The largest on record began February 3, 2022, with 9,644 customers out at once.
44significant 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.4.5 hourstypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.6 dayslongest on record (February 2022)
9,644most 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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| February 3, 2022 | 9,644 | 6 days | 543,089 |
| March 25, 2023 | 5,411 | 3.1 days | 127,989 |
| April 18, 2024 | 5,108 | 18 hours | 51,930 |
| February 24, 2019 | 4,838 | 3.3 days | 123,798 |
| July 23, 2022 | 4,756 | 3 days | 102,618 |
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.