Mercer County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Mercer County, Ohio had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.31 times the US outage time per person and 0.41 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 80 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

14 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Marhardest months

April and March made up 30% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 3,875 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 13.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	16,320	14	0
2016	7,612	9	0
2017	19,957	12	0
2018	10,845	8	0
2019	81,254	32	2
2020	59,478	27	1
2021	28,256	25	0
2022	13,695	13	0
2023	56,678	15	1

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
Apr 1, 2023	13.5	3,875	32,059
Feb 24, 2019	8.8	8,809	28,426
Nov 15, 2020	8.8	4,228	21,266
May 28, 2019	8.8	1,952	16,806
Jan 18, 2020	2.8	6,047	8,072

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.