Butler County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Butler County, Ohio had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.38 times the US outage time per person and 0.49 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 72 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

59 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Novhardest months

June and November made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 13, 2022, reached 50,956 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 53.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Ohio counties

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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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1.5M

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	225,298	124	1
2016	444,066	136	3
2017	292,161	158	1
2018	393,514	106	1
2019	153,550	102	0
2020	201,943	87	2
2021	189,200	80	3
2022	1,173,128	126	1
2023	240,897	107	2

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
Jun 13, 2022	53.0	50,956	956,952
Nov 15, 2018	58.8	16,015	223,500
Aug 27, 2016	25.5	6,069	64,701
Jul 7, 2017	19.2	6,170	59,877
Apr 3, 2016	25.8	4,532	55,557

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.