Power outage history
Monroe County Ohio
11hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
11th most of 88 in Ohio 1.7× 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 Monroe'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 26 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Monroe, 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 16, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,984 | 22% | 5.0 d | 4.0 d | 84k |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Ice storm | 1,497 | 17% | 4.1 d | 3.2 d | 81k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | No storm report | 2,282 | 25% | 2.1 d | 28 h | 44k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 1,803 | 20% | 2.2 d | 34 h | 32k |
| Dec 29, 2024 | No storm report | 1,211 | 13% | 20 h | 17 h | 19k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,364 | 15% | 28 h | 23 h | 13k |
| Jul 23, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,346 | 15% | 12 h | 7.8 h | 12k |
| May 2, 2025 | No storm report | 636 | 7% | 17 h | 14 h | 11k |
| Feb 28, 2024 | Tornadoes | 2,103 | 23% | 32 h | 8.5 h | 9.9k |
| May 26, 2024 | No storm report | 929 | 10% | 15 h | 13 h | 8.8k |
| May 25, 2024 | No storm report | 1,024 | 11% | 16 h | 5.8 h | 7.4k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | No storm report | 445 | 5% | 24 h | – | 7.4k |
| Jan 17, 2025 | No storm report | 1,034 | 12% | 8.2 h | 8.2 h | 7.4k |
| Nov 18, 2017 | No storm report | 676 | 8% | 17 h | 48 min | 6.7k |
| Oct 18, 2016 | No storm report | 1,817 | 20% | 11 h | 30 min | 6.7k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | No storm report | 760 | 8% | 22 h | 19 h | 6.4k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | No storm report | 1,169 | 13% | 22 h | 9.2 h | 6.4k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,056 | 12% | 16 h | 8.8 h | 6.3k |
| Apr 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 708 | 8% | 11 h | 9.5 h | 6.2k |
| Feb 17, 2022 | No storm report | 670 | 7% | 17 h | 13 h | 5.8k |
| Apr 21, 2025 | No storm report | 1,038 | 12% | 13 h | 1.8 h | 5.7k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Winter storm | 533 | 6% | 20 h | 28 h | 5.5k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 876 | 10% | 11 h | 9.0 h | 5.3k |
| Feb 7, 2018 | Winter storm | 1,147 | 13% | 11 h | 8.5 h | 5.3k |
| Jan 29, 2020 | No storm report | 815 | 9% | 6.2 h | 12 min | 5.1k |
| Jul 10, 2020 | No storm report | 741 | 8% | 14 h | 11 h | 4.8k |
| Jan 24, 2024 | No storm report | 644 | 7% | 7.5 h | 12 h | 4.8k |
| Dec 4, 2023 | No storm report | 1,046 | 12% | 5.0 h | 4.8 h | 4.7k |
| Oct 3, 2023 | No storm report | 561 | 6% | 8.8 h | 30 min | 4.5k |
| Mar 3, 2020 | No storm report | 579 | 6% | 16 h | 3.8 h | 4.5k |
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 Monroe from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 56%
- Thunderstorms 21%
- Ice storm 13%
- Windstorm 4.9%
- Winter storm 3.1%
- Tornadoes 1.5%
- Flooding 0.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Monroe
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 |
| Washington Electric Coop | OH | – | – | – | 16.1 | 87k |
| City of Woodsfield | OH | – | – | – | – | 9.8k |
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
- Marshall, WV 24 h
- Tyler, WV 20 h
- Wetzel, WV 14 h
- Monroe (this county) 11 h
- Belmont 6.9 h
- Noble 6.7 h
- Washington 5.3 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 8,974 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 →