Wood County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wood County, Ohio had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.24 times the US outage time per person and 0.31 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 85 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

23 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Novhardest months

June and November made up 30% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2022, reached 3,526 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 14.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	88,748	41	1
2016	35,490	34	0
2017	63,412	31	2
2018	62,723	36	0
2019	59,071	44	0
2020	97,330	34	1
2021	62,650	36	1
2022	125,320	42	2
2023	98,698	44	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
Jun 14, 2022	14.2	3,526	30,366
Dec 11, 2021	10.8	7,398	29,652
Nov 15, 2020	23.2	3,898	26,861
Jun 22, 2017	22.8	2,473	17,710
Mar 8, 2017	10.0	4,843	13,498

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.