Hancock County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.53 times the US outage time per person and 0.68 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 57 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

44 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Dechardest months

June and December made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 7,781 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 37.8 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	60,242	19	0
2016	42,430	31	1
2017	96,684	41	2
2018	20,323	26	0
2019	152,462	45	2
2020	90,476	38	3
2021	124,394	29	2
2022	218,358	45	3
2023	61,266	34	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
Jun 14, 2022	37.8	7,781	95,100
Dec 11, 2021	13.0	5,538	58,268
Jun 1, 2022	11.8	3,845	42,265
Feb 24, 2019	34.5	4,511	41,974
Mar 3, 2019	6.8	3,853	25,006

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.