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

Power outage history

Wetzel County West Virginia

14hours

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

37th most of 55 in West Virginia 2.1× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 7, 2015 92% of customers out · 90% back in 22 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 14h / yr State average 16 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.6 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 6.6days Mar 4, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 31% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 23 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 9,256 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 Wetzel'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 23 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wetzel, hours without power per customer

WetzelUS median countyWest Virginia average
0 20 40 60 51 ’15 16 ’16 34 ’17 9.1 ’18 16 ’19 13 ’20 8.4 ’21 12 ’22 15 ’23 16 ’24 23 ’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 8,502 92% 6.6 d 22 h 351k
Jul 7, 2017 No storm report 3,320 36% 2.3 d 46 h 91k
Apr 19, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,875 20% 3.0 d 16 h 48k
Mar 25, 2023 Windstorm 3,044 33% 2.4 d 23 h 46k
Jul 29, 2017 Flooding 2,223 24% 43 h 29 h 43k
Aug 4, 2017 No storm report 1,895 20% 23 h 23 h 42k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 971 10% 2.5 d 2.2 d 35k
May 30, 2025 Flooding 1,633 18% 2.1 d 34 h 33k
Dec 19, 2025 No storm report 1,568 17% 41 h 31 h 30k
Oct 19, 2024 No storm report 1,982 21% 9.5 h 12 h 19k
Oct 31, 2019 No storm report 1,397 15% 27 h 18 h 18k
Apr 9, 2015 No storm report 1,688 18% 16 h 4.8 h 16k

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 +24h

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

  • No storm on record 69%
  • Thunderstorms 13%
  • Windstorm 10%
  • Flooding 5.3%
  • Winter storm 2.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wetzel

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
Wheeling Power Co Investor Owned 706 426 2.26 17.6 34k
City of New Martinsville WV – – – – 12k

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 9,256 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 →