Power outages in West Virginia
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All West Virginia counties (55)
- Barbour
- Berkeley
- Boone
- Braxton
- Brooke
- Cabell
- Calhoun
- Clay
- Doddridge
- Fayette
- Gilmer
- Grant
- Greenbrier
- Hampshire
- Hancock
- Hardy
- Harrison
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Kanawha
- Lewis
- Lincoln
- Logan
- Marion
- Marshall
- Mason
- McDowell
- Mercer
- Mineral
- Mingo
- Monongalia
- Monroe
- Morgan
- Nicholas
- Ohio
- Pendleton
- Pleasants
- Pocahontas
- Preston
- Putnam
- Raleigh
- Randolph
- Ritchie
- Roane
- Summers
- Taylor
- Tucker
- Tyler
- Upshur
- Wayne
- Webster
- Wetzel
- Wirt
- Wood
- Wyoming
Utility coverage in West Virginia
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
FirstEnergy WV (Mon Power) · Appalachian Power (AEP) · Potomac Edison (FirstEnergy MD) · AEP (all states) · FirstEnergy (all states)
Also tracked live — opens in the app
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving West Virginia.
Historical outage patterns in West Virginia
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 26,574 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in West Virginia between 2014 and 2025 across all 55 counties — 61 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 4.8 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (31% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2016.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~59,406 customers out in Kanawha County in April 2024, restored after about 3.3 days.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: March 2017 (14 counties), June 2016 (14 counties) and July 2017 (10 counties).
Where restoration has historically taken longest: Kanawha County (~8.5 hr typical), Lincoln County (~7 hr typical) and Clay County (~6.5 hr typical) — against ~4.8 hr statewide.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve West Virginia?
Electric utilities we track in West Virginia include FirstEnergy WV, Appalachian Power, Ohio's Electric Cooperatives and Potomac Edison. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.