Hardin County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hardin County, Ohio had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.46 times the US outage time per person and 0.60 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 64 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

27 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 24, 2019, reached 1,973 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.2 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	12,952	19	0
2016	20,562	9	1
2017	27,100	20	1
2018	23,400	19	0
2019	68,018	17	1
2020	29,640	17	2
2021	51,624	19	1
2022	36,568	12	1
2023	40,227	10	3

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
Feb 24, 2019	27.2	1,973	35,680
Jun 14, 2022	20.0	1,934	26,052
Mar 25, 2023	10.2	3,333	13,511
Dec 11, 2021	15.2	3,079	12,917
Apr 21, 2021	4.5	2,712	12,188

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.