Lorain County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lorain County, Ohio had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.38 times the US outage time per person and 0.50 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 72 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

88 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 24, 2023, reached 15,855 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 87.5 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	183,150	110	0
2016	175,024	111	1
2017	223,364	113	3
2018	319,154	90	3
2019	303,726	107	2
2020	394,336	93	4
2021	306,231	79	5
2022	259,122	102	3
2023	558,905	78	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
Aug 24, 2023	87.5	15,855	369,494
Aug 11, 2021	71.5	6,178	119,032
Mar 2, 2018	24.0	10,535	96,472
Oct 20, 2018	35.2	8,330	87,144
Feb 24, 2019	38.8	6,061	69,000

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.