Cuyahoga County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cuyahoga County, Ohio had 32 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.85 times the US outage time per person and 1.11 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 41 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

144 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 23, 2023, reached 70,828 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 144.0 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	1,208,240	467	3
2016	1,895,778	437	3
2017	2,490,684	425	3
2018	2,220,233	410	4
2019	3,005,230	416	4
2020	3,357,671	399	5
2021	3,336,829	473	5
2022	1,648,134	487	0
2023	4,127,893	427	5

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 23, 2023	144.0	70,828	2,165,765
Aug 11, 2021	98.0	68,713	1,566,002
Sep 13, 2019	106.8	41,555	1,048,757
Dec 1, 2020	92.5	49,804	874,090
Mar 8, 2017	61.5	59,429	873,307

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.