Holmes County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Holmes County, Ohio had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.63 times the US outage time per person and 2.12 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 14 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

180 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 72% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 11,833 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 180.2 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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1.5M

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	11,000	13	0
2016	17,022	13	0
2017	11,292	6	0
2018	94,976	71	2
2019	91,561	44	1
2020	104,489	44	4
2021	91,981	37	3
2022	1,056,418	51	3
2023	128,285	35	4

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	180.2	11,833	977,512
Mar 25, 2023	47.0	4,755	73,459
Feb 24, 2019	44.8	2,832	54,374
Nov 15, 2020	21.5	2,726	34,433
Mar 26, 2021	17.8	3,662	30,443

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.