Power outage history
Fulton County Ohio
3.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
73rd most of 88 in Ohio 54% 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 Fulton's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.6 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Fulton, 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 12, 2019 | Ice storm | 3,771 | 20% | 35 h | 21 h | 30k |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 4,722 | 25% | 12 h | 7.8 h | 28k |
| Jul 2, 2019 | No storm report | 2,122 | 11% | 18 h | 5.0 h | 25k |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Winter storm | 1,830 | 10% | 36 h | 24 h | 19k |
| Jun 6, 2019 | No storm report | 3,041 | 16% | 5.2 h | 5.0 h | 15k |
| Oct 10, 2025 | No storm report | 3,118 | 17% | 4.5 h | 3.0 h | 13k |
| Oct 20, 2021 | No storm report | 3,034 | 16% | 5.2 h | 3.8 h | 13k |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,158 | 6% | 19 h | 16 h | 12k |
| Jan 13, 2024 | No storm report | 2,278 | 12% | 6.8 h | 3.8 h | 9.9k |
| Mar 8, 2017 | Windstorm | 1,687 | 9% | 9.5 h | 6.5 h | 8.5k |
| Nov 5, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,459 | 13% | 5.8 h | 4.8 h | 7.5k |
| Jun 20, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,350 | 7% | 16 h | 14 h | 7.3k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | No storm report | 2,476 | 13% | 4.0 h | 2.8 h | 7.2k |
| Jun 13, 2022 | No storm report | 1,351 | 7% | 20 h | 9.5 h | 7.1k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Windstorm | 1,926 | 10% | 10 h | 8.8 h | 6.7k |
| Dec 24, 2022 | Winter storm | 4,946 | 26% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 6.2k |
| Jun 27, 2015 | Flooding | 411 | 2% | 19 h | – | 6.0k |
| Jan 8, 2025 | No storm report | 3,550 | 19% | 4.8 h | 3.0 h | 5.6k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | No storm report | 1,210 | 6% | 6.8 h | 4.8 h | 4.6k |
| Nov 11, 2019 | Winter storm | 1,038 | 6% | 7.2 h | 7.5 h | 4.3k |
| Nov 11, 2019 | Winter storm | 3,620 | 19% | 2.2 h | 1.0 h | 4.1k |
| Jan 10, 2017 | No storm report | 970 | 5% | 5.5 h | 8.0 h | 3.9k |
| May 28, 2016 | No storm report | 2,238 | 12% | 1.8 h | 12 min | 3.9k |
| Jul 12, 2017 | No storm report | 1,164 | 6% | 6.5 h | 2.5 h | 3.8k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | No storm report | 324 | 2% | 15 h | – | 3.7k |
| Dec 10, 2025 | No storm report | 1,557 | 8% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 3.4k |
| Feb 1, 2023 | No storm report | 1,138 | 6% | 3.8 h | 12 min | 3.1k |
| Feb 21, 2021 | No storm report | 3,300 | 18% | 1.8 h | 1.0 h | 3.1k |
| Oct 30, 2022 | No storm report | 402 | 2% | 8.0 h | – | 3.0k |
| Jul 15, 2023 | No storm report | 604 | 3% | 4.5 h | – | 2.7k |
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 Fulton from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 61%
- Thunderstorms 17%
- Winter storm 10%
- Ice storm 8.9%
- Windstorm 2.2%
- Tropical storm 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Fulton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Toledo Edison Co | Investor Owned | 110 | 92 | 0.95 | 16.5 | 280k |
| Tricounty Rural Elec Coop, Inc | OH | – | – | – | – | 51k |
| City of Napoleon | OH | 20 | 8 | 0.19 | 12.6 | 48k |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative | Cooperative | 195 | 195 | 1.10 | 18.8 | 866 |
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
- Lenawee, MI 24 h
- Hillsdale, MI 19 h
- Fulton (this county) 3.0 h
- Henry 2.7 h
- Lucas 2.4 h
- Williams 1.6 h
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 18,783 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 →