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

Power outage history

Monroe County West Virginia

36hours

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

5th most of 55 in West Virginia 5.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 23, 2016 100% of customers out · 90% back in 5.5 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 36h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 15.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.5days Sep 27, 2024, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 39% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 3.0 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,829 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 Monroe'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 3.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Monroe, hours without power per customer

MonroeUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 20 40 60 80 100 15 ’15 67 ’16 35 ’17 35 ’18 28 ’19 14 ’20 32 ’21 32 ’22 30 ’23 72 ’24 48 ’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
Jun 23, 2016 Thunderstorms 3,829 100% 3.1 d 5.5 h 118k
Sep 27, 2024 Windstorm 3,829 100% 5.5 d 35 h 114k
May 26, 2024 No storm report 3,114 81% 3.1 d 2.5 h 85k
Jul 18, 2017 Thunderstorms 3,829 100% 20 h 20 h 75k
Jul 8, 2016 Thunderstorms 3,829 100% 47 h 29 h 60k
Jul 28, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,691 96% 2.8 d 43 h 58k
Mar 21, 2018 Winter storm 2,274 59% 2.8 d 1.5 h 57k
May 13, 2025 No storm report 3,438 90% 18 h 1.5 h 53k
Jan 6, 2025 Winter storm 1,329 35% 2.7 d 2.1 d 35k
May 29, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,960 77% 23 h 6.2 h 23k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 769 20% 3.1 d 31 h 22k
May 22, 2025 No storm report 3,455 90% 7.5 h 7.0 h 21k

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 +8h 90% by +20h

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

  • No storm on record 61%
  • Windstorm 13%
  • Winter storm 13%
  • Thunderstorms 11%
  • Ice storm 1.2%
  • Tropical storm 0.6%
  • Flooding 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Monroe

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
Monongahela Power Co Investor Owned 1,250 553 3.72 14.3 334k
Craig-Botetourt Electric Coop VA 866 731 2.92 17.0 2.5k

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+

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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 3,829 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 →