Power outage history
Auglaize County Ohio
1.4hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
88th most of 88 in Ohio 78% below 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 Auglaize's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.4 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Auglaize, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2023 | Tornadoes | 1,659 | 8% | 27 h | 25 h | 21k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | No storm report | 1,479 | 7% | 13 h | 13 h | 13k |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Tornadoes | 1,805 | 9% | 14 h | 14 h | 12k |
| May 27, 2019 | Tornadoes | 1,490 | 7% | 6.8 h | 5.8 h | 10k |
| Oct 12, 2019 | No storm report | 1,345 | 7% | 7.5 h | 7.2 h | 9.2k |
| Feb 3, 2023 | No storm report | 1,367 | 7% | 5.2 h | 5.5 h | 7.2k |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 854 | 4% | 5.0 h | – | 4.3k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 714 | 4% | 7.0 h | – | 3.7k |
| May 7, 2024 | Tornadoes | 543 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 3.6k |
| Oct 1, 2025 | No storm report | 1,876 | 9% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 2.9k |
| Oct 23, 2017 | No storm report | 495 | 2% | 6.8 h | – | 2.7k |
| Feb 17, 2022 | No storm report | 862 | 4% | 3.2 h | – | 2.6k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,126 | 6% | 3.8 h | 3.0 h | 2.5k |
| Mar 18, 2021 | No storm report | 830 | 4% | 3.2 h | – | 2.3k |
| Oct 23, 2025 | No storm report | 1,346 | 7% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 2.0k |
| Aug 14, 2019 | No storm report | 656 | 3% | 4.2 h | – | 2.0k |
| Sep 27, 2020 | No storm report | 857 | 4% | 2.0 h | – | 1.7k |
| Nov 16, 2024 | No storm report | 694 | 3% | 2.5 h | – | 1.7k |
| Nov 29, 2018 | No storm report | 251 | 1% | 6.8 h | – | 1.6k |
| Aug 13, 2016 | No storm report | 850 | 4% | 1.8 h | – | 1.5k |
| Jul 5, 2022 | No storm report | 895 | 5% | 1.8 h | – | 1.4k |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 427 | 2% | 4.8 h | – | 1.4k |
| Dec 27, 2020 | No storm report | 264 | 1% | 5.2 h | – | 1.4k |
| Jul 22, 2017 | Flooding | 499 | 3% | 3.2 h | – | 1.4k |
| Jan 18, 2020 | Winter storm | 774 | 4% | 1.8 h | – | 1.4k |
| Jul 5, 2023 | No storm report | 886 | 4% | 1.5 h | – | 1.3k |
| Mar 15, 2025 | No storm report | 406 | 2% | 3.0 h | – | 1.2k |
| Feb 6, 2022 | No storm report | 261 | 1% | 4.8 h | – | 1.2k |
| Sep 26, 2018 | No storm report | 812 | 4% | 1.8 h | – | 1.2k |
| Sep 7, 2020 | No storm report | 535 | 3% | 2.2 h | – | 1.2k |
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 Auglaize from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 60%
- Tornadoes 32%
- Thunderstorms 6.1%
- Winter storm 1.1%
- Windstorm 0.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Auglaize
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 |
| Dayton Power & Light Co | Investor Owned | 168 | 97 | 0.99 | 16.1 | 469k |
| Mid-Ohio Energy Coop, Inc | OH | 71 | 71 | – | 13.3 | 112k |
| Pioneer Rural Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 129 | 129 | 1.50 | 16.4 | 16k |
| Village of Minster | OH | 736 | 16 | 2.21 | 12.9 | 15k |
| Village of New Bremen | OH | – | – | – | – | 14k |
| Midwest Electric, Inc | Cooperative | 255 | 91 | 1.88 | 15.8 | 11k |
| City of Celina | Municipal | – | – | – | 10.0 | 7.7k |
| City of Wapakoneta | Municipal | 179 | 16 | 0.41 | 11.4 | 5.0k |
| Village of New Knoxville | OH | – | – | – | – | 4.0k |
| Village of Waynesfield | OH | – | – | – | – | 3.8k |
| City of St Marys | Municipal | – | – | – | 13.5 | 3.8k |
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.
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 19,905 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 →