Perry County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Perry County, Ohio had 44 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.93 times the US outage time per person and 2.51 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 10 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

102 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 3, 2022, reached 6,062 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 102.2 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	13,669	11	0
2016	60,176	33	1
2017	231,473	55	8
2018	210,676	49	3
2019	165,063	45	6
2020	124,802	40	7
2021	86,113	22	3
2022	457,345	56	7
2023	169,956	55	9

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	102.2	6,062	326,464
Feb 7, 2018	33.0	6,722	77,602
Jul 7, 2017	29.2	7,854	65,954
Dec 11, 2021	34.8	3,842	47,562
Feb 24, 2019	35.5	2,919	44,294

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.