Power outages in Marshall County, WV

We don't have a live outage feed for the utilities serving Marshall County yet. Wheeling Power Co serves this county.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages

Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.

fewer than 5customers without power

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

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 …").

0.01% of 17,218 customersUpdated 7 min ago

We 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.

Wheeling Power Cono live feed

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.

Also serves this county, per federal utility records

From 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.

Outage map

County outline

Outages by ZIP code

1 of 8 ZIP codes have outages

ZIP	Area	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
26055	Unincorporated area	fewer than 5	806	0.37%
26031	Benwood	0	1,007	0.00%
26033	Cameron	0	1,808	0.00%
26036	Unincorporated area	0	274	0.00%
26038	Glen Dale / Moundsville	0	1,479	0.00%
26039	Unincorporated area	0	610	0.00%
26040	McMechen	0	956	0.00%
26041	Moundsville	0	8,024	0.00%

Outage history in Marshall County

2014–2025 record

Marshall 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)

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

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	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
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).

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.

Cities in Marshall County

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Utilities

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