Ross County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ross County, Ohio had 40 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.44 times the US outage time per person and 1.87 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 18 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

98 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 12,759 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	106,413	48	2
2016	221,020	60	3
2017	144,613	72	4
2018	230,222	96	5
2019	189,944	91	6
2020	168,768	86	4
2021	177,403	82	5
2022	612,254	78	5
2023	560,538	80	6

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
Mar 3, 2023	68.2	12,759	387,868
Feb 3, 2022	98.2	5,935	266,786
Jun 13, 2022	76.0	7,100	185,990
Jun 24, 2016	74.5	2,288	73,532
Jun 23, 2016	22.8	14,302	59,144

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.