Power outage history
Belmont County Ohio
6.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
29th 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 Belmont'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 25 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Belmont, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 2022 | Ice storm | 17,291 | 39% | 4.0 d | 2.0 d | 627k |
| Jun 14, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 11,194 | 25% | 2.6 d | 36 h | 230k |
| Jun 16, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 8,174 | 18% | 28 h | 26 h | 122k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 6,303 | 14% | 32 h | 20 h | 82k |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 5,334 | 12% | 28 h | 24 h | 54k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,009 | 9% | 29 h | 27 h | 50k |
| Aug 25, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 6,575 | 15% | 9.8 h | 8.2 h | 46k |
| May 6, 2019 | No storm report | 5,570 | 12% | 9.8 h | 4.2 h | 44k |
| Feb 7, 2018 | Winter storm | 7,246 | 16% | 10 h | 6.2 h | 34k |
| Aug 14, 2023 | No storm report | 5,742 | 13% | 10 h | 14 h | 33k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | No storm report | 2,981 | 7% | 27 h | 24 h | 30k |
| Jul 23, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,005 | 7% | 20 h | 20 h | 28k |
| Mar 29, 2020 | No storm report | 8,442 | 19% | 6.2 h | 1.2 h | 26k |
| Aug 10, 2021 | No storm report | 8,387 | 19% | 6.5 h | 2.0 h | 19k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | No storm report | 1,744 | 4% | 15 h | – | 18k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | No storm report | 5,021 | 11% | 9.5 h | 3.2 h | 17k |
| Apr 29, 2017 | No storm report | 4,421 | 10% | 5.2 h | 3.2 h | 16k |
| Nov 18, 2017 | No storm report | 1,790 | 4% | 14 h | – | 16k |
| Jul 28, 2022 | No storm report | 4,443 | 10% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 14k |
| Jan 10, 2025 | No storm report | 2,299 | 5% | 9.8 h | 7.0 h | 14k |
| Nov 16, 2018 | Winter storm | 3,512 | 8% | 7.0 h | 6.0 h | 14k |
| Mar 7, 2022 | No storm report | 2,025 | 5% | 8.5 h | – | 11k |
| Aug 30, 2015 | No storm report | 2,221 | 5% | 8.2 h | – | 11k |
| May 19, 2016 | No storm report | 5,118 | 11% | 2.2 h | 2.0 h | 10k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | No storm report | 3,562 | 8% | 7.2 h | 2.0 h | 9.9k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | No storm report | 941 | 2% | 17 h | – | 9.3k |
| May 1, 2017 | No storm report | 2,169 | 5% | 8.2 h | – | 9.2k |
| Jul 24, 2016 | No storm report | 3,296 | 7% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 8.9k |
| Sep 15, 2020 | No storm report | 10,659 | 24% | 48 min | 48 min | 8.0k |
| Jan 1, 2018 | No storm report | 3,688 | 8% | 3.8 h | 3.5 h | 7.7k |
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 Belmont from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Ice storm 33%
- Thunderstorms 30%
- No storm on record 29%
- Windstorm 4.3%
- Winter storm 2.9%
- Flooding 0.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Belmont
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 |
| South Central Power Company | Cooperative | 298 | 198 | 2.83 | 15.4 | 118k |
| City of St Clairsville | OH | – | – | – | – | 27k |
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
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 44,590 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 →