When will the power be back in Grant County, WV?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Grant County, WV right now.
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Elsewhere in West Virginia: 193 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 11:31 PM EDT.
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Who serves Grant County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include FirstEnergy WV and Potomac Edison, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Grant County, WV
Last significant outage: Sep 14, 2026 — peaked at 440 customers, restored in ~1.2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 6 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 24, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Grant County, WV
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
233 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~3.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is shorter than the West Virginia norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~4.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~6,472 customers out in February 2016, restored after about 34 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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 Grant County include Petersburg and Bayard. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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