Portage County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Portage County, Ohio had 34 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.07 times the US outage time per person and 1.38 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 36 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

93 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 25, 2023, reached 31,116 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 93.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	105,212	78	0
2016	123,322	75	1
2017	430,928	83	5
2018	235,826	109	5
2019	329,810	76	5
2020	559,134	99	5
2021	210,234	83	3
2022	328,088	105	6
2023	1,521,977	83	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
Aug 25, 2023	93.2	31,116	847,964
Mar 25, 2023	81.8	19,885	356,013
Apr 1, 2023	72.2	13,384	213,165
Nov 15, 2020	20.5	26,057	210,645
Nov 5, 2017	49.2	10,918	141,330

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.