Taylor County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Taylor County, West Virginia had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.89 times the US outage time per person and 0.60 times the West Virginia rate. It ranks 38 of 48 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

36 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 5, 2015, reached 2,908 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 36.2 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	161,641	34	4
2016	122,442	49	3
2017	134,593	38	5
2018	51,284	20	4
2019	48,144	23	3
2020	36,408	18	3
2021	39,835	19	2
2022	50,200	32	4
2023	40,728	21	2

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	36.2	2,908	61,272
Jul 29, 2017	16.0	4,080	38,864
Mar 6, 2015	34.2	1,444	35,999
Feb 24, 2019	32.0	1,695	27,362
Jun 14, 2021	21.8	2,837	20,126

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.