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

Power outage history

Fayette County Ohio

4.8hours

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

51st most of 88 in Ohio 27% below the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 30, 2025 15% of customers out · 90% back in 39 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.8h / yr State average 5.5 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.0days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 52% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 7.7 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 14,964 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 Fayette's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 7.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Fayette, hours without power per customer

FayetteUS median countyOhio average
0 2 4 6 8 10 1.9 ’15 3.0 ’16 2.8 ’17 4.5 ’18 7.0 ’19 2.9 ’20 3.3 ’21 5.5 ’22 3.3 ’23 4.3 ’24 7.7 ’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 30, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,188 15% 41 h 39 h 41k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 2,533 17% 2.0 d 4.5 h 40k
Jan 19, 2019 Winter storm 6,801 45% 17 h 13 h 31k
May 3, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,274 9% 31 h 39 h 20k
Nov 15, 2018 Ice storm 2,461 16% 37 h 12 min 19k
Mar 14, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,927 20% 22 h 9.0 h 17k
Jun 23, 2016 Tornadoes 4,130 28% 20 h 7.2 h 16k
Feb 6, 2017 No storm report 2,730 18% 4.8 h 4.5 h 12k
Dec 23, 2022 Winter storm 2,543 17% 17 h 8.8 h 12k
Apr 25, 2022 No storm report 4,642 31% 2.8 h 2.5 h 11k
Jul 29, 2021 Thunderstorms 2,249 15% 15 h 3.5 h 10k
Jul 5, 2025 No storm report 2,650 18% 4.0 h 4.0 h 10k

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 +4h 90% by +10h

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 Fayette from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 48%
  • Thunderstorms 27%
  • Winter storm 9.7%
  • Tropical storm 8.6%
  • Ice storm 4.2%
  • Windstorm 1.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Fayette

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 Edison Co Investor Owned 244 131 1.51 16.0 961k
Dayton Power & Light Co Investor Owned 168 97 0.99 16.1 469k
South Central Power Company Cooperative 298 198 2.83 15.4 118k

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+

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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 14,964 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 →