Union County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Union County, Ohio had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.17 times the US outage time per person and 0.22 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 87 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

10 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 8, 2021, reached 3,095 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 6.2 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	9,644	7	0
2016	15,431	19	0
2017	6,267	11	0
2018	24,888	29	0
2019	36,295	27	1
2020	29,364	25	0
2021	52,480	37	0
2022	49,509	38	1
2023	45,455	36	1

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 8, 2021	6.2	3,095	10,831
Aug 14, 2020	6.2	3,756	10,026
Jul 2, 2019	8.8	3,528	8,668
Apr 29, 2021	5.0	4,631	8,630
Jun 14, 2022	5.8	3,507	8,550

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.