Preble County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Preble County, Ohio had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.80 times the US outage time per person and 1.04 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 44 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

54 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Marhardest months

July and March made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 11, 2017, reached 12,477 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 53.8 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	31,986	20	1
2016	66,575	24	2
2017	108,206	29	2
2018	64,400	27	2
2019	44,020	35	0
2020	100,184	56	4
2021	88,532	22	5
2022	104,780	38	3
2023	110,251	33	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
Jul 11, 2017	53.8	12,477	82,286
Apr 1, 2023	20.2	4,016	39,648
Aug 27, 2016	32.5	2,468	38,180
Mar 31, 2022	24.0	6,914	34,361
Mar 18, 2021	24.0	2,415	29,793

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.