Power Out Map
– 0% of Fayette out 0 customers out in West Virginia

Power outage history

Fayette County West Virginia

21hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

23rd most of 55 in West Virginia 3.1× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 1, 2017 72% of customers out · 90% back in 3.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 21h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 8hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 7.9days Mar 6, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 49% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 2.2 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 23,870 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Fayette's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Fayette, hours without power per customer

FayetteUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 20 40 60 17 ’15 16 ’16 42 ’17 20 ’18 13 ’19 14 ’20 13 ’21 21 ’22 18 ’23 52 ’24 13 ’25 WV 16 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Mar 1, 2017 Thunderstorms 17,254 72% 4.4 d 3.0 d 580k
Apr 2, 2024 Thunderstorms 17,737 74% 3.5 d 2.1 d 524k
May 26, 2024 Thunderstorms 11,729 49% 2.9 d 2.0 d 316k
Jun 17, 2022 No storm report 9,402 39% 2.1 d 25 h 139k
Jun 23, 2016 Thunderstorms 3,056 13% 3.3 d 2.3 d 138k
Mar 6, 2017 No storm report 4,880 20% 7.9 d 27 h 130k
Jul 28, 2023 No storm report 5,842 24% 2.1 d 44 h 120k
Jan 12, 2024 Windstorm 3,854 16% 2.0 d 28 h 97k
Apr 1, 2023 Windstorm 8,160 34% 28 h 20 h 97k
Jun 13, 2021 Thunderstorms 4,153 17% 43 h 14 h 77k
Jul 14, 2015 Thunderstorms 3,761 16% 43 h 39 h 72k
Apr 12, 2020 Windstorm 5,006 21% 43 h 13 h 68k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +16h 90% by +30h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Fayette from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 51%
  • Thunderstorms 30%
  • Windstorm 12%
  • Winter storm 2.9%
  • Flooding 1.6%
  • Ice storm 1.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Fayette

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole West Virginia territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Appalachian Power Co Investor Owned 1,035 546 2.98 17.0 348k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across West Virginia

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All West Virginia counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 23,870 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →