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

Power outage history

Pendleton County West Virginia

24hours

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

16th most of 55 in West Virginia 3.7× the national median

Worst outage on record May 14, 2018 84% of customers out · 90% back in 35 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 24h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 7.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.0days Feb 24, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 43% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 43 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,221 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 Pendleton'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

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 43 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pendleton, hours without power per customer

PendletonUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 10 20 30 40 50 28 ’15 40 ’16 17 ’17 43 ’18 15 ’19 14 ’20 13 ’21 29 ’22 13 ’23 27 ’24 42 ’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
May 14, 2018 Thunderstorms 2,708 84% 38 h 35 h 80k
Jun 25, 2024 No storm report 3,221 100% 19 h 11 h 36k
Jun 17, 2025 No storm report 3,221 100% 9.5 h 17 h 30k
Aug 20, 2015 No storm report 1,536 48% 28 h 23 h 29k
Aug 1, 2022 No storm report 3,221 100% 13 h 9.2 h 28k
Feb 16, 2016 Ice storm 2,244 70% 35 h 26 h 23k
Dec 22, 2022 Winter storm 1,045 32% 2.1 d 1.2 h 21k
Dec 29, 2025 No storm report 1,350 42% 29 h 18 h 19k
Mar 1, 2018 Windstorm 1,730 54% 43 h 20 h 18k
Mar 20, 2024 Windstorm 1,130 35% 28 h 21 h 17k
Apr 2, 2016 Windstorm 1,522 47% 21 h 12 h 16k
Oct 17, 2016 No storm report 2,886 90% 5.2 h 5.2 h 15k

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 +12h 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 Pendleton from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 57%
  • Thunderstorms 17%
  • Winter storm 12%
  • Windstorm 11%
  • Tropical storm 2.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pendleton

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

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 3,221 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 →