Power outage history
Mineral County West Virginia
5.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
52nd most of 55 in West Virginia 14% below the national median
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 Mineral's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 12 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Mineral, hours without power per customer
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 4, 2023 | Ice storm | 4,674 | 31% | 36 h | 26 h | 54k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 1,851 | 12% | 2.1 d | 45 h | 47k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,990 | 13% | 2.0 d | 8.8 h | 28k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | Windstorm | 3,140 | 21% | 23 h | 5.0 h | 28k |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Ice storm | 1,181 | 8% | 36 h | 28 h | 21k |
| Feb 12, 2019 | Winter storm | 4,554 | 30% | 32 h | 48 min | 20k |
| Jan 29, 2025 | Windstorm | 2,120 | 14% | 22 h | 8.2 h | 19k |
| Feb 12, 2017 | No storm report | 1,256 | 8% | 25 h | 14 h | 17k |
| Aug 3, 2015 | No storm report | 2,894 | 19% | 5.5 h | 5.0 h | 16k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | No storm report | 1,840 | 12% | 20 h | 18 h | 15k |
| Nov 22, 2021 | No storm report | 4,240 | 28% | 4.0 h | 5.5 h | 14k |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Windstorm | 936 | 6% | 20 h | 24 h | 10k |
| Apr 23, 2022 | No storm report | 1,522 | 10% | 6.5 h | 1.5 h | 9.9k |
| Apr 22, 2016 | No storm report | 4,558 | 30% | 2.0 h | 1.2 h | 8.4k |
| Nov 5, 2025 | No storm report | 2,836 | 19% | 5.5 h | 4.0 h | 8.2k |
| Oct 29, 2016 | No storm report | 2,916 | 19% | 2.8 h | 2.5 h | 8.0k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,528 | 17% | 6.0 h | 3.8 h | 7.9k |
| Aug 8, 2018 | No storm report | 3,318 | 22% | 2.5 h | 2.0 h | 7.8k |
| Apr 25, 2017 | No storm report | 3,170 | 21% | 15 h | 1.8 h | 7.6k |
| Dec 18, 2015 | No storm report | 1,652 | 11% | 4.2 h | 4.0 h | 7.0k |
| Dec 19, 2025 | Winter storm | 1,595 | 10% | 4.8 h | 4.5 h | 7.0k |
| Nov 30, 2015 | No storm report | 1,634 | 11% | 4.2 h | 5.0 h | 6.9k |
| Apr 25, 2016 | No storm report | 4,556 | 30% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 6.8k |
| Apr 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,386 | 9% | 13 h | 6.8 h | 6.5k |
| Jul 28, 2021 | No storm report | 1,501 | 10% | 4.0 h | 2.5 h | 6.0k |
| Nov 3, 2020 | No storm report | 1,510 | 10% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 5.8k |
| Jan 16, 2020 | No storm report | 1,103 | 7% | 5.2 h | 1.0 h | 5.4k |
| May 19, 2015 | No storm report | 1,634 | 11% | 4.8 h | 12 h | 5.4k |
| Dec 16, 2019 | Ice storm | 625 | 4% | 21 h | – | 5.3k |
| Jan 20, 2023 | No storm report | 3,408 | 22% | 1.5 h | 48 min | 5.1k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Mineral from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 44%
- Windstorm 20%
- Ice storm 15%
- Winter storm 14%
- Thunderstorms 4.5%
- Tropical storm 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Mineral
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monongahela Power Co | Investor Owned | 1,250 | 553 | 3.72 | 14.3 | 334k |
| 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
- Hampshire 20 h
- Hardy 15 h
- Grant 13 h
- Garrett, MD 13 h
- Allegany, MD 7.4 h
- Mineral (this county) 5.7 h
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 15,215 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 →