Harrison County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Harrison County, Ohio had 44 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.04 times the US outage time per person and 3.94 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 2 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

113 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 3,042 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 113.2 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	24,050	19	1
2016	42,508	30	4
2017	76,942	26	2
2018	59,677	40	7
2019	182,695	51	10
2020	101,448	50	5
2021	61,146	43	4
2022	287,334	40	8
2023	102,626	25	3

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	113.2	3,042	117,088
Feb 3, 2022	75.8	3,513	106,169
Feb 24, 2019	58.0	2,488	82,259
Mar 25, 2023	55.5	2,627	69,445
Jan 1, 2017	22.2	1,429	31,770

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.