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

Power outage history

Hampshire County West Virginia

20hours

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

24th most of 55 in West Virginia 3.1× the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 16, 2022 80% of customers out · 90% back in 3.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 20h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 8.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.4days Dec 15, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 71% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 2.6 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 11,760 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 Hampshire's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Hampshire, hours without power per customer

HampshireUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 20 40 60 80 10 ’15 13 ’16 19 ’17 15 ’18 37 ’19 7.2 ’20 9.9 ’21 63 ’22 6.5 ’23 12 ’24 11 ’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
Dec 15, 2022 Ice storm 9,399 80% 5.4 d 3.1 d 460k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 5,971 51% 4.1 d 3.1 d 242k
Feb 12, 2017 No storm report 5,692 48% 29 h 24 h 86k
Dec 23, 2022 Winter storm 3,817 32% 2.4 d 29 h 85k
Mar 2, 2018 Windstorm 6,754 57% 3.0 d 27 h 66k
Feb 12, 2019 Winter storm 2,425 21% 2.2 d 15 h 60k
Jul 12, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,343 20% 3.1 d 2.1 d 60k
Jul 23, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,509 21% 42 h 21 h 36k
Feb 16, 2016 Ice storm 3,844 33% 13 h 7.0 h 20k
Apr 2, 2016 Windstorm 4,624 39% 20 h 1.2 h 19k
Jan 20, 2019 Winter storm 5,254 45% 9.0 h 1.0 h 19k
Mar 2, 2017 No storm report 3,454 29% 7.0 h 3.0 h 18k

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 +10h 90% by +24h

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 Hampshire from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 29%
  • Ice storm 28%
  • Windstorm 20%
  • Winter storm 12%
  • Thunderstorms 9.8%
  • Flooding 1.1%
  • Tropical storm 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Hampshire

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
The Potomac Edison Company Investor Owned 440 249 1.96 13.1 138k

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 11,760 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 →