Huron County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Huron County, Ohio had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.68 times the US outage time per person and 0.88 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 51 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Novhardest months

June and November made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 6,892 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.0 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	47,190	25	1
2016	13,113	19	0
2017	116,976	23	2
2018	65,513	26	1
2019	51,196	23	1
2020	74,244	40	1
2021	115,648	37	2
2022	125,681	29	1
2023	260,989	32	2

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 16, 2023	68.0	6,892	217,955
Jun 14, 2022	44.0	5,638	96,244
Nov 5, 2017	50.5	3,666	67,388
Aug 25, 2021	8.5	5,287	35,744
Mar 1, 2018	21.0	3,665	28,760

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.