Clark County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Clark County, Ohio had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.31 times the US outage time per person and 0.40 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 80 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

24 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 25% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 17, 2018, reached 9,047 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 5.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	54,418	47	0
2016	85,667	36	1
2017	109,957	58	1
2018	136,524	53	2
2019	130,980	67	2
2020	105,825	51	2
2021	86,735	52	0
2022	105,714	55	3
2023	103,149	56	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
Aug 17, 2018	5.2	9,047	37,097
Oct 20, 2018	24.5	5,245	32,351
Nov 15, 2020	22.5	5,096	25,825
Apr 2, 2016	4.5	12,614	21,086
Oct 11, 2021	4.2	9,468	19,227

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.