When will the power be back in Kanawha County, WV?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · West Virginia
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customers reported out in Kanawha County, WV
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Official restoration time (Appalachian Power): Oct 4, 12:30 PM EDT
A small number of customers are reported out county-wide — too few for a live restoration estimate. past outages here typically ran ~10 hr, based on 23 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 2:04 AM EDT.
44county-wide trend of customers without power · last 76 min · 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
Charleston — <5 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 12:30 PM EDT
⚡ No power in Kanawha, WV? We'll notify you when the outage we're tracking looks mostly restored.
An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include 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 — Kanawha County, WV
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 368 customers, restored in ~17.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 40 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 11.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 29, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Kanawha County, WV
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,934 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 15 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~8.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is longer than the West Virginia norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~4.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~59,406 customers out in April 2024, restored after about 3.3 days.
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 in Kanawha County include Charleston, South Charleston, St. Albans, Dunbar, Nitro, Marmet, Chesapeake and Montgomery. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
