Fayette County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.56 times the US outage time per person and 0.73 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 55 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

30 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aprhardest months

June and April made up 26% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 20, 2019, reached 6,801 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 16.8 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	14,485	13	0
2016	34,738	26	1
2017	22,789	14	1
2018	49,429	26	3
2019	85,853	26	3
2020	27,484	20	0
2021	27,634	27	1
2022	63,712	22	2
2023	29,472	15	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
Jan 20, 2019	16.8	6,801	30,576
May 3, 2022	30.5	1,274	20,449
Mar 14, 2019	18.5	4,959	17,792
Jun 23, 2016	17.5	4,130	12,316
Dec 23, 2022	16.2	2,611	12,107

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.