Athens County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Athens County, Ohio had 49 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.88 times the US outage time per person and 2.44 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 11 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

56 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 31% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 25, 2023, reached 10,133 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 55.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Ohio counties

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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	125,673	72	2
2016	154,251	68	2
2017	315,424	76	8
2018	221,029	72	6
2019	339,105	69	8
2020	199,589	70	6
2021	378,861	77	4
2022	507,125	85	8
2023	377,524	63	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	55.8	10,133	207,203
Jan 22, 2021	14.2	17,613	188,118
Feb 24, 2019	52.0	5,089	83,888
Apr 14, 2019	24.0	11,330	72,640
Jul 10, 2017	28.2	5,998	68,700

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.