Power Out Map
– 0% of Athens out 0 customers out in Ohio

Power outage history

Athens County Ohio

7.8hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

23rd most of 88 in Ohio 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 25, 2023 23% of customers out · 90% back in 39 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.8h / yr State average 5.5 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.2days Mar 25, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 43% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 12 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 44,829 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Athens's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 12 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Athens, hours without power per customer

AthensUS median countyOhio average
0 5 10 15 3.7 ’15 4.4 ’16 8.3 ’17 6.2 ’18 8.8 ’19 5.8 ’20 9.7 ’21 12 ’22 9.7 ’23 4.9 ’24 4.9 ’25 US 6.6 OH 5.5

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 25, 2023 Windstorm 10,133 23% 2.2 d 39 h 206k
Jan 22, 2021 No storm report 17,613 39% 16 h 12 h 189k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 5,089 11% 32 h 28 h 78k
Apr 14, 2019 Thunderstorms 11,330 25% 19 h 14 h 71k
Jul 10, 2017 Thunderstorms 5,998 13% 27 h 25 h 68k
May 16, 2022 No storm report 10,663 24% 7.2 h 6.2 h 63k
Jun 8, 2022 Thunderstorms 3,940 9% 37 h 22 h 60k
Feb 3, 2022 Winter storm 3,482 8% 28 h 6.5 h 53k
Jun 10, 2020 Thunderstorms 3,820 9% 26 h 23 h 53k
Jun 13, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,327 5% 26 h 18 h 45k
Jun 22, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,953 7% 19 h 19 h 40k
May 26, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,736 6% 16 h 11 h 39k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +10h 90% by +22h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Athens from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 57%
  • Thunderstorms 21%
  • Windstorm 16%
  • Winter storm 3.8%
  • Flooding 1.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Athens

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
Washington Electric Coop OH – – – 16.1 87k
Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 995 995 3.19 20.5 16k
Village of Glouster OH – – – – 7.8k

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.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Ohio

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Ohio counties →

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 44,829 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 →