Geauga County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Geauga County, Ohio had 45 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.20 times the US outage time per person and 2.86 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 7 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

111 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 25, 2023, reached 24,782 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 111.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	110,312	78	0
2016	175,812	54	3
2017	568,942	73	5
2018	215,920	65	4
2019	362,518	77	7
2020	1,220,706	66	6
2021	320,638	70	9
2022	238,581	80	6
2023	1,404,774	77	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
Aug 25, 2023	111.2	24,782	819,248
Dec 1, 2020	86.5	23,231	762,062
Mar 25, 2023	74.0	17,903	447,970
Mar 8, 2017	70.8	12,031	265,476
Nov 15, 2020	20.8	17,387	206,419

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.