When will the power be back in Nicholas County, WV?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Nicholas County, WV right now.
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Elsewhere in West Virginia: 81 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 8:16 AM EDT.
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Who serves Nicholas 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. 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 — Nicholas County, WV
Last significant outage: Sep 30, 2026 — peaked at 1,297 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).
Across the 17 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.8 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 — Nicholas County, WV
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
460 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~10,548 customers out in April 2024, restored after about 3.3 days. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
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 Nicholas County include Summersville, Richwood, Birch River, Craigsville, Dixie, Fenwick, Nettie and Tioga. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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