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Power outage history

Wayne County West Virginia

50hours

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

3rd most of 55 in West Virginia 7.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 16, 2021 82% of customers out · 90% back in 11.2 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 50h / 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% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 17.8days Feb 10, 2021, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 72% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2021 7.5 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 22,995 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 Wayne'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 7.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wayne, hours without power per customer

WayneUS median countyWest Virginia average

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
Feb 10, 2021	Ice storm	18,901	82%	17.8 d	11.2 d	3.6M
Apr 2, 2024	Thunderstorms	10,335	45%	3.2 d	2.3 d	322k
Nov 8, 2016	No storm report	2,760	12%	5.5 d	4.2 d	304k
Sep 27, 2024	Hurricane Helene	7,351	32%	3.5 d	3.1 d	282k
Jul 13, 2015	No storm report	5,422	24%	4.2 d	2.4 d	252k
Mar 25, 2023	No storm report	9,113	40%	3.4 d	43 h	200k
Mar 3, 2023	Thunderstorms	8,760	38%	2.1 d	28 h	185k
Jun 17, 2022	Thunderstorms	5,300	23%	3.3 d	2.0 d	170k
Mar 1, 2017	Thunderstorms	7,087	31%	3.9 d	2.3 d	170k
Apr 1, 2023	Windstorm	5,597	24%	46 h	28 h	117k
Jan 6, 2025	Winter storm	3,547	15%	2.7 d	2.2 d	116k
Jun 23, 2016	Thunderstorms	2,678	12%	2.6 d	41 h	90k
Feb 16, 2025	Flooding	2,346	10%	2.6 d	2.4 d	84k
Oct 20, 2018	Windstorm	4,126	18%	24 h	11 h	69k
Mar 3, 2016	Winter storm	5,449	24%	29 h	30 min	68k
Jun 13, 2022	Thunderstorms	2,281	10%	2.6 d	47 h	56k
Jan 11, 2020	Thunderstorms	2,779	12%	34 h	20 h	52k
Jul 28, 2023	No storm report	3,113	14%	38 h	26 h	51k
Aug 25, 2020	No storm report	2,928	13%	25 h	21 h	50k
Jan 17, 2022	Winter storm	2,523	11%	38 h	31 h	48k
Mar 12, 2018	Winter storm	2,577	11%	34 h	27 h	41k
Jul 22, 2017	No storm report	4,171	18%	21 h	12 h	41k
Apr 13, 2020	Windstorm	4,158	18%	39 h	29 h	40k
May 17, 2025	Thunderstorms	1,719	7%	46 h	41 h	39k
Apr 9, 2020	No storm report	2,746	12%	37 h	22 h	38k
Feb 24, 2019	Windstorm	3,447	15%	36 h	26 h	37k
May 9, 2021	Windstorm	1,860	8%	28 h	22 h	37k
Jul 18, 2023	No storm report	1,408	6%	47 h	13 h	36k
Jul 4, 2018	No storm report	2,426	11%	22 h	7.5 h	30k
May 25, 2017	No storm report	4,940	21%	14 h	11 h	30k

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

Ice storm 45%
No storm on record 28%
Thunderstorms 12%
Windstorm 4.7%
Tropical storm 4.0%
Winter storm 3.2%
Flooding 2.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wayne

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

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

Lincoln 54 h
Wayne (this county) 50 h
Lawrence, KY 40 h
Mingo 34 h
Martin, KY 27 h
Cabell 18 h
Boyd, KY 18 h
Lawrence, OH 15 h

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 22,995 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 →