Hocking County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hocking County, Ohio had 68 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.84 times the US outage time per person and 6.28 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 1 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

7.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

170 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 3, 2022, reached 13,677 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 170.5 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	54,960	47	1
2016	176,161	68	6
2017	213,632	80	6
2018	276,287	94	10
2019	324,234	76	15
2020	206,204	68	5
2021	114,955	46	3
2022	1,148,465	77	14
2023	404,505	74	8

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	170.5	13,677	863,095
Mar 25, 2023	52.0	9,293	166,346
Mar 4, 2023	50.5	4,189	122,625
Feb 7, 2018	38.5	7,141	103,261
Feb 24, 2019	45.0	4,351	80,197

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.