Brown County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Brown County, Ohio had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.33 times the US outage time per person and 1.73 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 23 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

60 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Marhardest months

July and March made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 1, 2017, reached 5,596 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 59.8 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	114,212	47	1
2016	118,788	68	4
2017	223,600	55	4
2018	146,763	50	7
2019	85,203	59	2
2020	158,336	54	4
2021	82,164	41	2
2022	238,665	52	4
2023	128,587	67	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
Mar 1, 2017	59.8	5,596	119,390
Mar 3, 2023	48.8	4,948	81,389
Jul 6, 2022	51.2	2,887	79,000
Apr 9, 2020	46.0	4,263	59,337
Feb 3, 2022	40.0	3,521	54,649

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.