Champaign County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Champaign County, Ohio had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.42 times the US outage time per person and 0.55 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 68 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Mayhardest months

June and May made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 5,129 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 48.2 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	4,347	10	0
2016	23,798	23	1
2017	5,712	11	0
2018	36,289	29	1
2019	52,360	20	2
2020	22,238	24	0
2021	50,419	35	2
2022	133,283	46	1
2023	34,870	30	0

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 14, 2022	48.2	5,129	86,526
Mar 26, 2021	36.8	1,317	24,174
May 28, 2019	14.2	1,332	18,939
Dec 30, 2019	9.5	2,824	10,876
May 11, 2018	9.0	1,312	9,922

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.