Power outage history
Licking County Ohio
3.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
65th most of 88 in Ohio 47% 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 Licking'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 4.8 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Licking, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 14,247 | 12% | 38 h | 30 h | 211k |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Windstorm | 10,092 | 9% | 16 h | 11 h | 77k |
| Jul 7, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 3,767 | 3% | 25 h | – | 71k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 10,186 | 9% | 16 h | 13 h | 65k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | Windstorm | 5,644 | 5% | 25 h | 24 h | 62k |
| May 14, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 11,216 | 10% | 10 h | 9.5 h | 61k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | No storm report | 13,520 | 12% | 8.8 h | 6.5 h | 54k |
| Jul 7, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 17,456 | 15% | 3.5 h | 3.0 h | 54k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 3,574 | 3% | 22 h | – | 48k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | No storm report | 11,221 | 10% | 6.5 h | 4.5 h | 39k |
| Jul 23, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 6,091 | 5% | 9.5 h | 9.5 h | 37k |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Tornadoes | 6,277 | 5% | 8.2 h | 2.2 h | 33k |
| Oct 19, 2023 | No storm report | 4,644 | 4% | 9.2 h | – | 32k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | No storm report | 9,713 | 8% | 5.2 h | 3.2 h | 31k |
| Jul 2, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 7,535 | 6% | 8.0 h | 8.2 h | 31k |
| Aug 8, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 8,711 | 7% | 8.0 h | 7.5 h | 30k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 5,966 | 5% | 7.0 h | 5.8 h | 28k |
| Jul 5, 2023 | No storm report | 7,385 | 6% | 5.5 h | 5.2 h | 27k |
| Nov 22, 2022 | No storm report | 3,349 | 3% | 10 h | – | 26k |
| Jun 23, 2017 | Tropical Storm Cindy | 4,504 | 4% | 8.0 h | – | 26k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,557 | 3% | 8.0 h | – | 25k |
| Jul 7, 2020 | No storm report | 6,094 | 5% | 3.8 h | 1.0 h | 21k |
| Jan 10, 2017 | No storm report | 5,873 | 5% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 20k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,724 | 4% | 5.0 h | – | 20k |
| Feb 24, 2018 | No storm report | 3,601 | 3% | 5.8 h | – | 19k |
| May 19, 2018 | No storm report | 6,395 | 5% | 3.2 h | 1.0 h | 19k |
| Jun 11, 2016 | No storm report | 3,920 | 3% | 4.8 h | – | 18k |
| Aug 20, 2016 | No storm report | 5,527 | 5% | 3.8 h | 4.0 h | 17k |
| May 11, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 4,536 | 4% | 8.0 h | – | 17k |
| Jun 18, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 4,088 | 3% | 4.8 h | – | 17k |
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 Licking from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 47%
- Thunderstorms 35%
- Windstorm 12%
- Tornadoes 2.0%
- Winter storm 1.9%
- Flooding 1.3%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Licking
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 |
| Duke Energy Ohio Inc | Investor Owned | 178 | 108 | 1.01 | 16.8 | 700k |
| South Central Power Company | Cooperative | 298 | 198 | 2.83 | 15.4 | 118k |
| Frontier Power Company | OH | 203 | 142 | 2.16 | 13.6 | 98k |
| Licking Rural Electric Inc | Cooperative | 244 | 112 | 1.57 | 17.0 | 26k |
| Consolidated Cooperative | Cooperative | 162 | 109 | 1.99 | 17.0 | 17k |
| Guernsey-Muskingum El Coop Inc | Cooperative | 695 | 282 | 2.44 | 18.3 | 15k |
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 117,187 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 →