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

Power outage history

Tyler County West Virginia

20hours

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

25th most of 55 in West Virginia 3.0× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 5, 2015 100% of customers out · 90% back in 4.5 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 20h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 9.3 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 5.8days Mar 4, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 28% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 36 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,787 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 Tyler'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 36 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Tyler, hours without power per customer

TylerUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 20 40 60 80 100 80 ’15 16 ’16 39 ’17 16 ’18 25 ’19 11 ’20 12 ’21 36 ’22 21 ’23 21 ’24 18 ’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 4, 2015 Winter storm 4,787 100% 5.8 d 4.5 d 330k
Jul 7, 2017 Thunderstorms 4,422 92% 2.1 d 41 h 78k
Jun 16, 2022 Thunderstorms 4,065 85% 2.8 d 40 h 59k
Mar 25, 2023 No storm report 3,221 67% 3.1 d 2.0 d 48k
Oct 20, 2024 No storm report 2,619 55% 11 h 4.8 h 28k
Dec 13, 2024 No storm report 2,599 54% 9.5 h 3.0 h 25k
Jul 23, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,794 37% 46 h 25 h 22k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 895 19% 2.6 d 2.1 d 21k
Oct 19, 2022 No storm report 2,624 55% 7.8 h 7.8 h 20k
May 15, 2018 Thunderstorms 2,539 53% 12 h 11 h 18k
Jul 10, 2017 Thunderstorms 1,286 27% 28 h 7.5 h 17k
Aug 4, 2017 No storm report 4,080 85% 9.2 h 4.8 h 14k

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 +6h 90% by +12h

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

  • No storm on record 72%
  • Thunderstorms 16%
  • Windstorm 8.0%
  • Flooding 2.3%
  • Winter storm 1.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Tyler

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

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 4,787 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 →