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

Power outage history

Vinton County Ohio

17hours

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

4th most of 88 in Ohio 2.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 27, 2024 35% of customers out · 90% back in 2.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 17h / yr State average 5.5 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.9days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 59% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 30 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 7,721 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 Vinton's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 30 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Vinton, hours without power per customer

VintonUS median countyOhio average
0 10 20 30 40 8.4 ’15 12 ’16 12 ’17 11 ’18 13 ’19 7.5 ’20 7.9 ’21 21 ’22 27 ’23 30 ’24 16 ’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
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 2,735 35% 4.9 d 2.9 d 143k
Mar 3, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,345 43% 2.8 d 42 h 79k
Mar 25, 2023 Flooding 2,043 26% 2.2 d 42 h 57k
Jun 13, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,969 26% 2.8 d 34 h 46k
Feb 5, 2025 No storm report 1,555 20% 47 h 40 h 37k
Apr 20, 2015 No storm report 4,094 53% 6.0 h 2.5 h 25k
Apr 2, 2016 Windstorm 1,064 14% 37 h 34 h 24k
Feb 3, 2022 Winter storm 842 11% 2.2 d 36 h 23k
Aug 5, 2017 No storm report 357 5% 2.2 d – 19k
Jul 14, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,202 16% 25 h 24 h 18k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 916 12% 37 h 26 h 17k
Dec 2, 2016 No storm report 343 4% 46 h – 16k

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 +18h 90% by +34h

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 Vinton from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 41%
  • Thunderstorms 23%
  • Tropical storm 17%
  • Flooding 10.0%
  • Windstorm 3.8%
  • Winter storm 3.2%
  • Tornadoes 1.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Vinton

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
South Central Power Company Cooperative 298 198 2.83 15.4 118k
Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 995 995 3.19 20.5 16k

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+

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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 7,721 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 →