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Who serves Clay County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include FirstEnergy WV and Appalachian Power, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Black Diamond Power Co also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see AEP outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Clay County, WV
Last significant outage: Sep 23, 2026 — peaked at 585 customers, restored in ~23.2 hr (weather alert).
Across the 7 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 27.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 30, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Clay County, WV
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
427 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
6.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the West Virginia norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~4.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~5,299 customers out in June 2016, restored after about 5.8 days. The busiest year on record here was 2018.
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.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Clay County, WV?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Clay include FirstEnergy WV, Appalachian Power and Black Diamond Power Co — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
