Ashland County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ashland County, Ohio had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.08 times the US outage time per person and 1.40 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 34 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

139 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Novhardest months

June and November made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 15,238 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 139.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	26,614	18	1
2016	11,885	14	0
2017	44,388	28	1
2018	52,593	68	4
2019	139,466	55	2
2020	162,684	28	4
2021	90,463	43	2
2022	635,945	43	3
2023	76,536	40	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jun 14, 2022	139.0	15,238	582,628
Nov 15, 2020	21.8	6,922	84,074
Feb 24, 2019	47.2	3,818	51,343
Jun 10, 2020	29.2	3,100	30,078
Mar 26, 2021	15.2	5,566	28,756

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.