Power outages in Ritchie County, WV

Live outage counts for Harrisville, Pennsboro and Ellenboro and the rest of Ritchie County, updated every 10 minutes from Mon Power.

Right now

Outages reported

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

1customers without power

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

Share of customers unknown

At least one utility here doesn't publish how many customers it serves in this area, so we can't show a percentage.

Updated 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.

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Outage map

County outlineMon Power publishes totals only, not outage locations.

Some utilities publish only how many customers are out, not where. Their outages are in the counts but can't be drawn on the map.

Outage history in Ritchie County

2014–2025 record

Ritchie County averaged 42.7 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for West Virginia counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 57. Half were over within 5 hours; the longest lasted 2.3 days, starting December 19, 2025.

The largest on record began May 14, 2015, with 6,438 customers out at once.

42.7significant 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 hourstypical (median) length

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

6.7 dayslongest on record (March 2015)

6,438most 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.
May 14, 2015	6,438	3.5 hours	22,528
August 3, 2020	6,219	7 hours	39,557
April 6, 2019	6,194	1.5 hours	7,743
June 26, 2022	6,189	9.5 hours	12,514
June 3, 2025	6,062	5 hours	27,089

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.

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24 hA half-full freezer holds about 24 hours if kept closed.
48 hA full freezer holds about 48 hours.

Generators, heat and cold

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Use a battery-powered carbon monoxide alarm.
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