Power outage history
Noble County Ohio
6.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
34th most of 88 in Ohio close to 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 Noble'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 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Noble, 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 | Flooding | 1,517 | 15% | 2.9 d | 2.2 d | 45k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | No storm report | 2,145 | 21% | 2.2 d | 2.8 h | 42k |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Ice storm | 1,247 | 12% | 44 h | 29 h | 31k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,820 | 18% | 24 h | 21 h | 23k |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Winter storm | 1,276 | 13% | 40 h | 26 h | 20k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 618 | 6% | 25 h | 6.0 h | 10.0k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | No storm report | 701 | 7% | 21 h | 17 h | 7.1k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,167 | 11% | 12 h | 8.0 h | 6.8k |
| Jan 26, 2022 | No storm report | 1,373 | 13% | 5.0 h | 5.0 h | 6.7k |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 961 | 9% | 17 h | 10 h | 6.6k |
| Oct 23, 2016 | No storm report | 2,088 | 20% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 6.6k |
| Jul 21, 2020 | No storm report | 1,464 | 14% | 4.5 h | 3.8 h | 6.3k |
| Jan 8, 2019 | No storm report | 2,075 | 20% | 3.0 h | 7.2 h | 6.2k |
| Jun 23, 2024 | No storm report | 1,575 | 15% | 3.8 h | 2.5 h | 5.9k |
| Feb 7, 2018 | Winter storm | 938 | 9% | 9.5 h | 7.5 h | 5.1k |
| Jul 13, 2024 | No storm report | 703 | 7% | 8.0 h | 3.2 h | 5.0k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | No storm report | 1,225 | 12% | 6.0 h | 1.8 h | 4.8k |
| Oct 17, 2021 | No storm report | 1,375 | 13% | 3.5 h | 3.0 h | 4.7k |
| Sep 29, 2020 | No storm report | 1,011 | 10% | 11 h | 4.0 h | 4.4k |
| Jul 26, 2025 | No storm report | 478 | 5% | 9.5 h | – | 4.3k |
| Aug 10, 2021 | No storm report | 784 | 8% | 12 h | 9.8 h | 4.2k |
| Jun 14, 2021 | No storm report | 474 | 5% | 9.5 h | – | 4.0k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | No storm report | 682 | 7% | 6.8 h | 5.8 h | 4.0k |
| Feb 25, 2023 | No storm report | 736 | 7% | 5.8 h | 6.5 h | 3.9k |
| Mar 3, 2020 | No storm report | 459 | 5% | 17 h | – | 3.7k |
| Dec 29, 2024 | No storm report | 308 | 3% | 16 h | – | 3.6k |
| Sep 23, 2023 | No storm report | 447 | 4% | 7.8 h | – | 3.5k |
| Jul 23, 2018 | No storm report | 470 | 5% | 7.8 h | – | 3.3k |
| Jun 8, 2022 | No storm report | 636 | 6% | 5.5 h | 3.0 h | 3.2k |
| Mar 26, 2019 | No storm report | 424 | 4% | 7.5 h | – | 3.2k |
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 Noble from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 61%
- Flooding 12%
- Thunderstorms 11%
- Ice storm 7.0%
- Winter storm 6.5%
- Windstorm 2.4%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Noble
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 |
| 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.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
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 10,204 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 →