Fairfield County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fairfield 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

128 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 27% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 3, 2022, reached 5,117 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 128.2 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	110,969	57	0
2016	293,683	105	1
2017	309,084	99	4
2018	352,224	128	3
2019	434,835	131	8
2020	384,340	103	4
2021	188,001	108	2
2022	607,179	100	5
2023	464,050	91	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
Feb 3, 2022	128.2	5,117	198,234
Jun 8, 2022	23.8	17,713	123,880
Mar 25, 2023	33.5	8,947	100,516
Jan 11, 2017	19.5	20,041	100,146
Aug 25, 2020	48.5	11,669	99,709

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.