Putnam County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Putnam County, Ohio had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.26 times the US outage time per person and 0.34 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 84 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

35 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Sephardest months

June and September made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 1,669 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 35.2 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	9,070	7	0
2016	5,615	7	0
2017	12,597	10	0
2018	7,244	9	0
2019	12,527	9	0
2020	19,077	20	1
2021	18,203	14	1
2022	92,712	24	3
2023	17,828	15	0

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 14, 2022	35.2	1,669	47,786
Sep 26, 2022	10.8	1,415	9,166
Apr 30, 2017	6.0	1,016	5,569
Mar 9, 2022	4.5	1,388	4,476
May 3, 2022	5.2	1,401	4,191

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.