Richland County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.10 times the US outage time per person and 1.43 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 32 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

163 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Novhardest months

June and November made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 28,231 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 163.0 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	98,509	48	1
2016	74,142	47	2
2017	185,210	62	5
2018	134,290	59	4
2019	303,908	57	6
2020	264,188	76	3
2021	189,676	72	4
2022	1,580,649	52	3
2023	198,107	51	3

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	163.0	28,231	1,504,256
Feb 24, 2019	59.8	6,186	100,599
Nov 15, 2020	21.8	8,084	93,559
Apr 1, 2023	46.5	4,935	80,143
Jun 10, 2020	41.8	6,215	62,219

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.