When will the power be back in Wirt County, WV?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · West Virginia
No significant county-wide outage reported in Wirt County, WV right now.
Lights out where you are? Very small or brand-new outages can take a few minutes to reach county-level data — check your exact address on the live map, and see what to check before you report it.
🔔 Get a free alert if an outage is detected here — one tap in your browser, no signup.
Elsewhere in West Virginia: 30 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 7:30 PM EDT.
⚡ No power in Wirt, 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.
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Who serves Wirt 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 — Wirt County, WV
Last significant outage: Sep 23, 2026 — peaked at 318 customers, restored in ~5.3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 10 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.3 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 — Wirt County, WV
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
175 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~5.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: an outage in October 2017, restored after about 5.3 hr. The recorded customer count for this outage is not shown — it is larger than the county's entire customer base, a known double-counting problem in the federal source. The busiest year on record here was 2017.
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 Wirt County include Elizabeth and Newark. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Nearby counties & areas
