Power outage history
Ashland County Ohio
5.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
42nd most of 88 in Ohio close to 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 Ashland's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 20 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Ashland, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 15,238 | 45% | 5.5 d | 3.9 d | 581k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 6,922 | 21% | 39 h | 23 h | 98k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 3,818 | 11% | 35 h | 22 h | 48k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,100 | 9% | 26 h | 25 h | 29k |
| Mar 26, 2021 | No storm report | 5,566 | 17% | 15 h | 7.2 h | 29k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | No storm report | 2,186 | 6% | 26 h | 23 h | 22k |
| Dec 30, 2019 | Windstorm | 4,591 | 14% | 8.5 h | 7.5 h | 21k |
| Jan 10, 2017 | Windstorm | 3,211 | 10% | 16 h | 12 h | 17k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,205 | 7% | 20 h | 19 h | 16k |
| Jan 9, 2022 | No storm report | 928 | 3% | 19 h | – | 13k |
| Aug 18, 2025 | No storm report | 4,211 | 13% | 4.0 h | 3.5 h | 13k |
| Feb 25, 2022 | No storm report | 2,542 | 8% | 3.5 h | 1.5 h | 8.6k |
| May 20, 2021 | No storm report | 8,042 | 24% | 2.0 h | 12 min | 8.6k |
| Jun 17, 2024 | No storm report | 4,212 | 13% | 2.0 h | 1.0 h | 8.3k |
| May 22, 2024 | No storm report | 1,045 | 3% | 10 h | – | 7.8k |
| May 16, 2020 | No storm report | 4,218 | 13% | 1.8 h | 12 min | 7.4k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | No storm report | 2,845 | 8% | 6.0 h | 3.0 h | 7.2k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | No storm report | 2,610 | 8% | 17 h | 1.8 h | 7.2k |
| May 19, 2019 | No storm report | 4,234 | 13% | 5.8 h | 48 min | 6.6k |
| May 20, 2015 | No storm report | 568 | 2% | 11 h | – | 6.0k |
| Jun 12, 2015 | No storm report | 3,413 | 10% | 2.8 h | 2.5 h | 5.9k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | No storm report | 1,276 | 4% | 7.0 h | – | 5.7k |
| Aug 11, 2021 | No storm report | 1,450 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 5.6k |
| Jul 28, 2025 | No storm report | 1,599 | 5% | 4.8 h | – | 5.6k |
| Aug 25, 2021 | No storm report | 1,045 | 3% | 7.0 h | – | 5.5k |
| Jun 23, 2025 | No storm report | 595 | 2% | 9.5 h | – | 5.4k |
| Jun 10, 2019 | No storm report | 1,003 | 3% | 9.5 h | – | 5.4k |
| Jan 7, 2024 | No storm report | 4,221 | 13% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 5.3k |
| Aug 19, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,113 | 6% | 6.0 h | 5.5 h | 5.2k |
| Jun 22, 2023 | No storm report | 2,795 | 8% | 2.5 h | 1.8 h | 5.2k |
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 Ashland from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 64%
- No storm on record 30%
- Windstorm 6.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Ashland
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 |
| Ohio Edison Co | Investor Owned | 244 | 131 | 1.51 | 16.0 | 961k |
| Firelands Electric Coop, Inc | OH | 226 | 226 | – | 13.2 | 124k |
| Licking Rural Electric Inc | Cooperative | 244 | 112 | 1.57 | 17.0 | 26k |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | Cooperative | 215 | 173 | – | 17.5 | 15k |
| Holmes-Wayne Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 326 | 275 | 2.19 | 17.2 | 15k |
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 33,664 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 →