Williams County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.19 times the US outage time per person and 0.25 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 86 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

32 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Febhardest months

June and February made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 12, 2019, reached 1,977 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 17.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	4,767	7	0
2016	5,380	7	0
2017	14,867	8	0
2018	20,772	18	0
2019	22,676	9	2
2020	22,991	14	1
2021	4,417	7	0
2022	41,529	17	3
2023	17,571	6	1

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
Feb 12, 2019	17.0	1,977	14,743
Feb 23, 2023	32.5	847	14,084
Jun 7, 2022	19.5	1,331	13,468
Jun 10, 2020	11.8	2,063	11,797
Jun 14, 2022	10.0	1,465	8,176

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.