Putnam County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Putnam County, West Virginia had 64 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.94 times the US outage time per person and 0.94 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 27 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

7.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

178 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 11, 2021, reached 17,405 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 178.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated West Virginia counties

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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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	167,287	96	6
2016	137,594	71	7
2017	168,908	66	4
2018	328,930	78	10
2019	181,395	66	6
2020	244,606	71	6
2021	1,754,473	81	7
2022	383,042	88	10
2023	330,732	54	8

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
Feb 11, 2021	178.2	17,405	1,075,561
Feb 18, 2021	123.0	7,200	470,249
Jun 14, 2022	69.0	10,210	145,843
Mar 4, 2023	40.8	3,120	75,249
Mar 1, 2017	50.2	6,992	72,711

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.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.