When will the power be back in Braxton County, WV?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · West Virginia
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customer reported out in Braxton County, WV
Reported as one combined county-wide total by Monongahela Power Co · county-wide data
Official restoration time (FirstEnergy WV): Oct 4, 4:00 AM EDT
A small number of customers are reported out county-wide — too few for a live restoration estimate. past outages here typically ran ~2.2 hr, based on 5 past outages of any size in the same kind of weather.
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
Updated 3:27 AM EDT.
11 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 9 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Sutton — 1 customer reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 4:00 AM EDT
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Who serves Braxton County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include FirstEnergy WV, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. This is the utility we track here, not necessarily the only one serving it — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Braxton County, WV
Last significant outage: Sep 22, 2026 — peaked at 1,127 customers, restored in ~44.5 hr (weather alert).
Across the 16 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 9.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Braxton County, WV
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
439 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~4.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: an outage in June 2016, restored after about 37.8 hr. The recorded customer count for this outage is not shown — it is larger than the county's entire customer base, a known double-counting problem in the federal source. The busiest year on record here was 2015.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Braxton County include Sutton, Gassaway, Burnsville and Flatwoods. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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