Knox County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Knox County, Ohio had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.57 times the US outage time per person and 2.04 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 16 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

140 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 21,067 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 139.5 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	94,158	51	2
2016	43,561	34	0
2017	104,294	31	6
2018	142,425	48	4
2019	106,237	50	3
2020	223,248	46	7
2021	98,108	47	3
2022	1,155,592	55	1
2023	235,442	38	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	139.5	21,067	1,057,938
Jul 5, 2023	8.5	22,269	114,862
Jun 10, 2020	27.2	6,866	84,868
Mar 25, 2023	30.5	5,900	76,244
Nov 16, 2018	20.5	3,562	41,810

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.