Lawrence County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.35 times the US outage time per person and 3.06 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 6 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

103 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Marhardest months

February and March made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2021, reached 17,257 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 70.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	82,722	56	1
2016	68,733	64	0
2017	112,568	56	1
2018	111,384	60	1
2019	125,046	50	4
2020	136,726	55	2
2021	1,931,108	84	12
2022	106,948	50	3
2023	217,430	45	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
Feb 15, 2021	70.2	17,257	859,861
Feb 18, 2021	103.2	10,367	591,586
Feb 11, 2021	67.0	7,825	221,152
Mar 25, 2023	51.5	5,118	74,068
Mar 4, 2023	21.8	2,555	38,236

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.