When will the power be back in Lincoln County, WV?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Appalachian Power, 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. For the parent company's combined picture, see AEP outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Lincoln County, WV
Last significant outage: Sep 26, 2026 — peaked at 581 customers, restored in ~5.5 hr (weather alert).
Across the 14 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 21, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Lincoln County, WV
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
680 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~7 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: ~8,046 customers out in February 2021, restored after about 14.8 days. The busiest year on record here was 2016.
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 Lincoln County include Hamlin, West Hamlin, Alum Creek and Harts. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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