Power outages in Ohio County, WV

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

Right now

Elevated outages

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

23customers without power

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

0.10% of 22,762 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 4 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.
26003	Wheeling / Bethlehem	23	21,615	0.11%
26059	Triadelphia / Valley Grove	0	2,023	0.00%
26060	Valley Grove	0	966	0.00%
26074	West Liberty	0	369	0.00%

Outage history in Ohio County

2014–2025 record

Ohio County averaged 30.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for West Virginia counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 23. Half were over within 2 hours; the longest lasted 2.8 days, starting June 15, 2025.

The largest on record began June 14, 2022, with 15,804 customers out at once.

30.3significant 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.

3 hourstypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

4.4 dayslongest on record (June 2022)

15,804most 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.
June 14, 2022	15,804	4.4 days	613,301
February 3, 2022	6,117	4.1 days	266,143
June 30, 2021	6,097	31 hours	62,280
April 29, 2025	5,872	27 hours	69,228
July 9, 2016	4,941	15 minutes	1,235

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 Ohio County

Nearby counties

Utilities

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