Jackson County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Jackson County, Ohio had 27 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.35 times the US outage time per person and 1.75 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 22 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 3,604 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.5 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	72,979	39	3
2016	50,224	38	1
2017	64,400	34	3
2018	55,340	32	4
2019	145,400	51	4
2020	98,272	47	1
2021	61,691	47	1
2022	199,698	36	6
2023	222,102	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	68.5	3,604	102,382
Mar 4, 2023	47.0	3,800	91,882
Mar 25, 2023	52.8	2,970	83,358
Feb 24, 2019	37.0	2,827	32,088
May 27, 2019	9.8	3,536	26,497

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.