Morgan County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.90 times the US outage time per person and 3.76 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 3 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

80 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 3, 2022, reached 4,787 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 80.2 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	19,130	15	0
2016	70,200	36	2
2017	37,478	27	3
2018	42,584	29	2
2019	91,097	39	5
2020	93,662	45	5
2021	55,442	35	4
2022	305,992	28	4
2023	147,290	33	4

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 3, 2022	80.2	4,787	234,654
Mar 25, 2023	46.5	3,751	69,574
Jun 14, 2022	40.8	2,965	38,094
Feb 24, 2019	48.2	1,673	29,418
Jun 23, 2016	6.5	5,083	16,008

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.