Lake County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lake County, Ohio had 42 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.16 times the US outage time per person and 1.50 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 31 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

114 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 25, 2023, reached 38,886 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 113.5 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	263,836	130	2
2016	341,280	87	4
2017	339,657	84	2
2018	713,564	97	5
2019	525,007	101	6
2020	931,254	117	4
2021	670,172	117	9
2022	302,327	113	4
2023	1,824,668	87	6

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
Aug 25, 2023	113.5	38,886	1,267,538
Mar 1, 2018	48.5	21,604	334,858
Dec 1, 2020	63.2	16,979	281,019
Nov 15, 2020	20.8	16,979	231,086
Mar 25, 2023	76.5	9,721	227,946

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.