Gilmer County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Gilmer County, West Virginia had 28 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.

3.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

62 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 5, 2015, reached 6,302 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 38.5 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	333,314	44	6
2016	53,426	45	2
2017	143,681	45	4
2018	25,244	21	0
2019	61,298	19	4
2020	41,069	38	2
2021	28,340	19	2
2022	79,247	25	2
2023	122,270	28	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 5, 2015	38.5	6,302	137,138
Mar 6, 2015	34.2	2,954	69,006
Mar 8, 2015	61.5	1,554	55,067
Mar 1, 2017	47.0	936	29,707
May 1, 2017	17.0	3,026	27,573

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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