Pike County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pike County, Ohio had 31 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.37 times the US outage time per person and 3.08 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 5 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

80 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 13, 2022, reached 7,655 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 74.5 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	132,219	41	3
2016	39,280	30	1
2017	94,851	39	4
2018	115,984	68	4
2019	189,335	85	7
2020	60,152	43	1
2021	88,094	59	3
2022	409,746	39	3
2023	284,101	45	5

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
Jun 13, 2022	74.5	7,655	244,378
Mar 3, 2023	63.5	4,797	130,944
Feb 3, 2022	80.0	3,759	102,903
Mar 25, 2023	40.8	3,071	69,942
Mar 1, 2017	31.8	2,562	39,918

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.