Darke County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Darke County, Ohio had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.28 times the US outage time per person and 0.37 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 83 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

20 hrslongest major outage

Nov, Julhardest months

November and July made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 15, 2020, reached 3,549 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 20.5 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	11,184	18	0
2016	20,098	17	0
2017	21,767	23	0
2018	28,352	22	0
2019	45,010	23	2
2020	73,121	27	1
2021	50,660	30	0
2022	41,781	24	0
2023	27,302	19	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
Nov 15, 2020	20.5	3,549	41,453
Jan 19, 2019	17.2	1,301	18,168
Jul 23, 2022	6.2	3,581	13,574
Apr 1, 2023	5.5	3,469	11,258
Feb 24, 2019	9.2	1,901	9,739

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.