Marion County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Marion County, Ohio had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.32 times the US outage time per person and 0.42 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 76 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

43 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Mayhardest months

June and May made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 5,141 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 43.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Ohio counties

MostLeast

Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

50K

100K

150K

200K

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	37,496	27	0
2016	20,236	15	0
2017	36,014	29	0
2018	44,637	27	0
2019	57,661	24	2
2020	59,137	36	1
2021	42,885	27	0
2022	120,720	24	1
2023	40,672	25	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

10%

20%

30%

40%

JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD

Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jun 14, 2022	43.0	5,141	89,806
Dec 30, 2019	13.8	1,972	12,205
Feb 24, 2019	18.2	1,043	11,866
Apr 15, 2021	1.0	12,074	11,014
May 22, 2020	6.0	1,881	10,781

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.

Look up another county

Counties ranked nearby

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.