Jefferson County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jefferson County, Ohio had 41 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.40 times the US outage time per person and 1.82 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 19 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

74 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 34% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 3, 2022, reached 8,602 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.5 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	126,455	67	1
2016	91,254	63	1
2017	143,282	58	4
2018	175,461	79	5
2019	374,296	69	7
2020	233,018	56	4
2021	167,020	63	8
2022	424,344	65	7
2023	238,383	39	4

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 3, 2022	68.5	8,602	227,154
Mar 25, 2023	51.8	4,702	109,151
Feb 24, 2019	73.8	3,463	103,813
Jun 11, 2020	37.2	8,230	67,753
Jul 10, 2020	24.5	2,552	38,392

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.