Braxton County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Braxton County, West Virginia had 44 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

4.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

58 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 1, 2017, reached 12,290 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 57.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	503,221	91	10
2016	216,824	60	4
2017	319,822	62	7
2018	69,010	47	4
2019	104,490	52	2
2020	83,752	45	4
2021	54,130	31	2
2022	116,618	46	5
2023	98,379	42	6

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 1, 2017	57.5	12,290	187,119
Jun 23, 2016	22.5	15,090	100,502
Mar 5, 2015	32.8	6,148	86,456
Jul 14, 2015	50.8	4,384	86,128
Mar 6, 2015	34.2	2,748	70,114

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
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