Vinton County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Vinton County, Ohio had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.15 times the US outage time per person and 2.80 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 8 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

54 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 4, 2023, reached 3,345 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 48.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Ohio counties

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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	46,363	13	1
2016	40,784	27	2
2017	64,352	32	5
2018	46,906	39	2
2019	56,492	24	6
2020	33,252	25	2
2021	32,372	23	1
2022	106,458	31	5
2023	167,729	31	5

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 4, 2023	48.8	3,345	76,280
Mar 25, 2023	48.5	2,043	55,898
Jun 14, 2022	47.2	1,969	43,902
Apr 20, 2015	6.0	4,094	24,559
Apr 3, 2016	33.8	1,064	22,614

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.