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2016 Fairfield County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Fairfield County, OH went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 338K customer-hours (Ohio average 2.9 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 88 Ohio counties and 804th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with OH, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Ohio customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Fairfield County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 28, 2016 05:00 | March 28, 2016 16:15 | 11h 15m | 18,028 | 50K |
| 2 | September 24, 2016 05:45 | September 24, 2016 06:45 | 1h | 12,798 | 9,802 |
| 3 | April 26, 2016 17:15 | April 26, 2016 22:00 | 4h 45m | 10,836 | 5,427 |
| 4 | September 9, 2016 11:15 | September 10, 2016 00:15 | 13h | 9,095 | 28K |
| 5 | February 24, 2016 22:00 | February 26, 2016 10:15 | 1d 12h | 5,456 | 13K |
| 6 | April 15, 2016 13:45 | April 16, 2016 00:45 | 11h | 5,083 | 11K |
| 7 | January 10, 2016 13:45 | January 11, 2016 01:45 | 12h | 4,940 | 9,719 |
| 8 | September 23, 2016 19:30 | September 24, 2016 02:30 | 7h | 4,425 | 2,174 |
| 9 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 24, 2016 00:45 | 14h | 3,534 | 3,300 |
| 10 | March 8, 2016 14:15 | March 8, 2016 15:45 | 1h 30m | 3,362 | 2,620 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 115 reached 100+ customers, 35 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Fairfield County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Power Co | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | 1.29 | 2.9 hrs | 1.24 |
| South Central Power Company | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 2.11 | 3.7 hrs | 1.86 |
| Duke Energy Ohio Inc | 2016 | 4.2 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.14 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Ohio's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 86,733 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Fairfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fairfield County, OH annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/ohio/fairfield-county