See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · West Virginia
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Who serves Raleigh County?
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 — Raleigh County, WV
Last significant outage: Sep 27, 2026 — peaked at 497 customers, restored in ~2.2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 15 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Raleigh County, WV
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
953 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
2 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
4.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~22,865 customers out in July 2016, restored after about 2.9 days. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
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.
Cities we track in Raleigh County
Communities in Raleigh County include Beckley, Mabscott, Sophia, Lester, Beaver, Bolt, Bradley and Coal City. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
