Power outages in Kanawha County, WV

Live outage counts for Charleston, South Charleston and St. Albans and the rest of Kanawha County, updated every 10 minutes from Appalachian Power.

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Elevated outages
iNormal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.
106customers without power
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
0.11% of 95,474 customersUpdated 7 min ago
iWe check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.
Appalachian Power106 / 95,474
Black Diamond Power Cono live feed
iThis 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.
Also serves this county, per federal utility records
iFrom EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.
. Check its own outage map.

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Outage locations not published
County outlineAppalachian Power publishes totals only, not outage locations.
iSome utilities publish only how many customers are out, not where. Their outages are in the counts but can't be drawn on the map.

Outages by ZIP code

6 of 44 ZIP codes have outages
ZIPAreaOutCustomers
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
% out
iCustomers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
25309South Charleston / Charleston436,4540.67%
25387Charleston342,7051.26%
25177St. Albans / Tornado1711,9250.14%
25015Belle / Shrewsbury62,0820.29%
25071Pinch / Elkviewfewer than 55,7420.05%
25302Charleston / Big Chimneyfewer than 57,9790.04%
25003Alum Creek01,2390.00%
25025Unincorporated area0750.00%
25035Chelyan05300.00%
25039Cedar Grove04330.00%
25045Clendenin02,6860.00%
25054Unincorporated area01050.00%
25061Unincorporated area03390.00%
25064Dunbar / Nitro05,1140.00%
25067East Bank04990.00%

Outage history in Kanawha County

2014–2025 record

Kanawha County averaged 89.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, more than most West Virginia counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 83. Half were over within 3 hours; the longest lasted 2.7 days, starting January 6, 2025.

The largest on record began April 2, 2024, with 59,406 customers out at once.

89.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)
iAt 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.
3 hourstypical (median) length
iHalf of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.
6.3 dayslongest on record (June 2016)
59,406most customers out at once
Largest events (start)Peak outLasted
iHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.
Customer-hours
iCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
April 2, 202459,4064.1 days2,281,363
June 24, 201921,7692.9 days631,937
January 17, 202217,1922.6 days366,944
June 23, 201617,0836.3 days655,896
June 17, 202215,5303.5 days296,873

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

iFrom 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.

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  • 48 hA full freezer holds about 48 hours.

Generators, heat and cold

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