Fulton County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fulton County, Ohio had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.36 times the US outage time per person and 0.47 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 74 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

30 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aughardest months

February and August made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 12, 2019, reached 3,771 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 30.5 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	15,257	18	0
2016	10,472	11	0
2017	29,479	15	1
2018	8,417	17	0
2019	91,619	24	2
2020	23,549	18	1
2021	67,267	22	2
2022	41,756	26	2
2023	47,949	24	1

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 12, 2019	30.5	3,771	29,704
Aug 11, 2021	11.2	4,722	28,051
Jul 3, 2019	10.0	2,122	20,258
Feb 23, 2023	30.2	1,830	17,911
Jun 7, 2019	5.2	3,041	14,778

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.