When will the power be back in Ritchie County, WV?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Ritchie County, WV right now.
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Elsewhere in West Virginia: 179 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 10:02 AM EDT.
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Who serves Ritchie County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include FirstEnergy WV, 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.
Outage history — Ritchie County, WV
Last significant outage: Sep 16, 2026 — peaked at 310 customers, restored in ~2.2 hr (weather alert).
Across the 6 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.5 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 — Ritchie County, WV
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
288 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~5.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~6,438 customers out in May 2015, restored after about 2.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
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 Ritchie County include Harrisville, Pennsboro, Ellenboro, Cairo, Pullman and Auburn. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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