Ashtabula County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ashtabula County, Ohio had 39 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.98 times the US outage time per person and 2.57 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 9 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

96 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Novhardest months

March and November made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 25, 2023, reached 19,258 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 96.0 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	199,912	101	3
2016	192,601	75	3
2017	544,898	57	5
2018	620,906	81	4
2019	512,447	76	5
2020	498,036	79	4
2021	515,755	83	6
2022	393,948	98	4
2023	742,906	71	5

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
Mar 25, 2023	96.0	19,258	445,531
Mar 2, 2018	61.2	17,791	440,896
Aug 18, 2019	36.0	27,767	231,000
Mar 8, 2017	55.5	9,939	192,642
Dec 11, 2021	47.5	14,154	178,092

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.