Power Out Map
– 0% of Paulding out 0 customers out in Ohio

Power outage history

Paulding County Ohio

5.0hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

48th most of 88 in Ohio 23% below the national median

Worst outage on record May 18, 2017 17% of customers out · 90% back in 3.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 5.0h / yr State average 5.5 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.2days May 18, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 22% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2019 9.2 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 7,079 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Paulding's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 9.2 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Paulding, hours without power per customer

PauldingUS median countyOhio average
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 4.0 ’15 0.5 ’16 7.9 ’17 3.1 ’18 9.2 ’19 3.7 ’20 5.4 ’21 5.8 ’22 4.6 ’23 3.9 ’24 4.8 ’25 US 6.6 OH 5.5

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
May 18, 2017 Thunderstorms 1,224 17% 3.2 d 3.0 d 36k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 2,819 40% 27 h 5.0 h 16k
Feb 1, 2023 No storm report 2,525 36% 5.5 h 5.2 h 11k
May 23, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,339 33% 11 h 6.2 h 8.7k
Jan 1, 2021 Winter storm 2,488 35% 3.8 h 3.0 h 7.5k
Apr 3, 2023 No storm report 3,638 51% 2.5 h 2.0 h 7.1k
Jun 13, 2022 No storm report 550 8% 18 h 7.0 h 7.1k
Nov 11, 2021 No storm report 1,901 27% 5.2 h 4.2 h 6.8k
Dec 1, 2019 No storm report 2,930 41% 3.8 h 2.5 h 6.4k
May 19, 2019 No storm report 2,193 31% 2.8 h 13 h 6.0k
Dec 24, 2022 Winter storm 754 11% 7.8 h 1.8 h 5.7k
May 29, 2024 No storm report 2,897 41% 2.2 h 30 min 5.4k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +4h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Paulding from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 78%
  • Windstorm 9.4%
  • Winter storm 6.6%
  • Thunderstorms 5.3%
  • Tropical storm 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Paulding

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
North Western Elec Coop, Inc OH 202 – 2.49 12.8 80k
Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 17.8 9.2k

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

Across Ohio

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Ohio 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 7,079 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 →