Tucker County, West Virginia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Tucker County, West Virginia had 23 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.

2.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

30 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Octhardest months

March and October made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 25, 2017, reached 6,006 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 11.0 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	32,774	22	5
2016	29,632	20	3
2017	154,856	22	6
2018	14,334	11	1
2019	25,038	12	1
2020	14,351	11	0
2021	40,640	11	2
2022	37,702	22	2
2023	61,177	15	3

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 25, 2017	11.0	6,006	46,174
Mar 1, 2017	24.5	3,280	28,785
Oct 23, 2023	30.2	706	19,186
May 1, 2017	26.5	988	18,219
Oct 22, 2023	26.0	723	17,221

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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