Power outage history
Adams County Ohio
12hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
10th most of 88 in Ohio 1.9× the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Adams's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 25 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Adams, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2023 | No storm report | 8,083 | 48% | 2.9 d | 43 h | 219k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 6,241 | 37% | 3.4 d | 26 h | 188k |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Tornadoes | 7,694 | 46% | 27 h | 25 h | 121k |
| May 14, 2017 | No storm report | 1,700 | 10% | 3.4 d | 5.5 h | 70k |
| Jun 18, 2021 | No storm report | 3,410 | 20% | 41 h | 18 h | 54k |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Ice storm | 1,524 | 9% | 47 h | 40 h | 33k |
| Dec 28, 2024 | No storm report | 6,274 | 37% | 5.2 h | 5.2 h | 24k |
| Jul 1, 2017 | No storm report | 507 | 3% | 44 h | – | 22k |
| Oct 26, 2018 | No storm report | 3,889 | 23% | 6.8 h | 4.0 h | 22k |
| Apr 30, 2023 | No storm report | 5,184 | 31% | 4.8 h | 11 h | 21k |
| Mar 10, 2025 | No storm report | 4,610 | 27% | 7.5 h | 10 h | 20k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,588 | 9% | 27 h | 24 h | 19k |
| Mar 11, 2020 | No storm report | 5,899 | 35% | 4.0 h | 1.2 h | 18k |
| Oct 24, 2025 | No storm report | 783 | 5% | 24 h | – | 16k |
| Dec 5, 2015 | No storm report | 2,016 | 12% | 8.2 h | 6.8 h | 16k |
| Oct 14, 2023 | No storm report | 575 | 3% | 36 h | – | 15k |
| Jun 29, 2021 | No storm report | 896 | 5% | 17 h | 17 h | 14k |
| May 31, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,975 | 12% | 19 h | 17 h | 14k |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,546 | 9% | 23 h | 21 h | 13k |
| Sep 19, 2023 | No storm report | 2,130 | 13% | 6.8 h | 13 h | 13k |
| Apr 3, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,563 | 9% | 11 h | 3.8 h | 13k |
| Feb 16, 2025 | Flooding | 1,320 | 8% | 14 h | 11 h | 13k |
| Jun 8, 2019 | No storm report | 1,987 | 12% | 5.5 h | 2.5 h | 11k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | No storm report | 1,730 | 10% | 6.0 h | 1.5 h | 10k |
| Aug 25, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,719 | 10% | 9.0 h | 7.8 h | 9.6k |
| Sep 4, 2015 | No storm report | 4,061 | 24% | 3.0 h | 2.0 h | 9.0k |
| Jan 16, 2018 | Winter storm | 2,013 | 12% | 4.5 h | 2.2 h | 8.8k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,583 | 9% | 15 h | 14 h | 8.4k |
| Apr 12, 2019 | No storm report | 1,980 | 12% | 5.2 h | 3.5 h | 8.2k |
| Mar 14, 2021 | No storm report | 766 | 5% | 12 h | – | 8.0k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Adams from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 62%
- Tropical storm 14%
- Tornadoes 8.9%
- Thunderstorms 8.8%
- Ice storm 2.4%
- Flooding 2.4%
- Winter storm 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Adams
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Ohio territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Power Co | Investor Owned | 221 | 145 | 1.22 | 19.0 | 1.3M |
| Duke Energy Ohio Inc | Investor Owned | 178 | 108 | 1.01 | 16.8 | 700k |
| South Central Power Company | Cooperative | 298 | 198 | 2.83 | 15.4 | 118k |
| Adams Rural Electric Coop, Inc | OH | – | – | – | 13.9 | 93k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 16,880 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →