Power outage history
Lorain County Ohio
5.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
43rd most of 88 in Ohio 14% 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 Lorain's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 16 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Lorain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 53,056 | 50% | 4.3 d | 3.1 d | 1.4M |
| Aug 23, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 15,855 | 15% | 2.7 d | 27 h | 355k |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 6,178 | 6% | 40 h | 43 h | 102k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 9,895 | 9% | 25 h | 24 h | 98k |
| Mar 1, 2018 | No storm report | 10,535 | 10% | 22 h | 20 h | 95k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 5,027 | 5% | 34 h | 40 h | 83k |
| Oct 20, 2018 | No storm report | 8,330 | 8% | 25 h | 24 h | 83k |
| Jun 4, 2025 | No storm report | 15,837 | 15% | 7.0 h | 6.2 h | 59k |
| Apr 7, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 10,582 | 10% | 12 h | 11 h | 58k |
| Mar 8, 2017 | No storm report | 12,545 | 12% | 22 h | 5.0 h | 53k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 6,061 | 6% | 15 h | 20 h | 53k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,840 | 4% | 17 h | – | 51k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 6,903 | 7% | 26 h | 25 h | 51k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 8,078 | 8% | 8.8 h | 5.0 h | 30k |
| Jun 1, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 5,613 | 5% | 9.8 h | 21 h | 29k |
| Nov 5, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 6,865 | 6% | 9.5 h | 9.2 h | 28k |
| Aug 9, 2015 | No storm report | 8,171 | 8% | 3.5 h | 1.5 h | 25k |
| Dec 30, 2019 | Windstorm | 5,612 | 5% | 5.2 h | 4.0 h | 21k |
| Aug 11, 2016 | No storm report | 4,578 | 4% | 9.8 h | – | 20k |
| Feb 20, 2016 | No storm report | 12,054 | 11% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 19k |
| Dec 18, 2025 | No storm report | 17,246 | 16% | 1.2 h | 48 min | 18k |
| Jun 29, 2019 | Flooding | 2,922 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 17k |
| May 14, 2018 | No storm report | 5,512 | 5% | 3.2 h | 3.0 h | 17k |
| Jan 10, 2017 | Windstorm | 5,070 | 5% | 4.8 h | 3.2 h | 16k |
| Mar 18, 2021 | No storm report | 16,219 | 15% | 2.5 h | 1.0 h | 15k |
| Mar 6, 2022 | No storm report | 8,292 | 8% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 15k |
| Mar 14, 2019 | No storm report | 7,003 | 7% | 3.8 h | 1.5 h | 15k |
| Sep 4, 2022 | No storm report | 4,792 | 5% | 4.0 h | – | 14k |
| Dec 24, 2019 | No storm report | 2,767 | 3% | 6.0 h | – | 12k |
| Dec 9, 2019 | No storm report | 4,829 | 5% | 3.5 h | – | 12k |
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 Lorain from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 66%
- No storm on record 29%
- Windstorm 3.1%
- Winter storm 1.2%
- Flooding 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Lorain
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 |
| Cleveland Electric Illum Co | Investor Owned | 196 | 136 | 1.37 | 16.2 | 678k |
| Firelands Electric Coop, Inc | OH | 226 | 226 | – | 13.2 | 124k |
| City of Amherst | OH | – | – | – | 12.6 | 58k |
| Village of Wellington | OH | – | – | – | – | 20k |
| City of Oberlin | OH | – | – | – | 12.3 | 20k |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | Cooperative | 215 | 173 | – | 17.5 | 15k |
| Village of Grafton | OH | – | – | – | – | 11k |
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 106,179 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 →