Sandusky County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sandusky County, Ohio had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.41 times the US outage time per person and 0.53 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 69 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 15, 2023, reached 4,009 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.5 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	30,558	26	0
2016	45,904	17	0
2017	30,730	14	0
2018	32,576	21	0
2019	12,439	16	0
2020	99,697	31	2
2021	45,234	15	1
2022	94,131	21	2
2023	137,702	25	2

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 15, 2023	71.5	4,009	82,371
Jun 10, 2020	28.8	4,041	50,432
Jun 14, 2022	11.5	2,522	22,678
Feb 20, 2016	7.2	6,138	22,222
Sep 8, 2022	6.5	3,374	21,900

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.