County annual report · FIPS 39049
2016 Franklin County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Franklin County, OH went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 1.9M customer-hours (Ohio average 2.9 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 633rd 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 Franklin 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 | September 23, 2016 13:30 | September 24, 2016 03:45 | 14h 15m | 22,341 | 11K |
| 2 | January 3, 2016 16:15 | January 13, 2016 03:15 | 9d 11h | 13,995 | 167K |
| 3 | August 25, 2016 05:15 | August 27, 2016 04:45 | 1d 23h | 12,838 | 75K |
| 4 | May 25, 2016 11:15 | June 7, 2016 07:00 | 12d 19h | 11,693 | 129K |
| 5 | June 22, 2016 03:00 | June 23, 2016 10:00 | 1d 7h | 11,038 | 34K |
| 6 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 30, 2016 03:30 | 6d 16h | 8,872 | 177K |
| 7 | August 27, 2016 06:15 | September 1, 2016 07:30 | 5d 1h | 8,600 | 73K |
| 8 | December 9, 2016 07:45 | December 10, 2016 22:00 | 1d 14h | 8,398 | 21K |
| 9 | March 31, 2016 23:15 | April 8, 2016 13:00 | 7d 13h | 7,221 | 55K |
| 10 | August 2, 2016 17:30 | August 11, 2016 14:15 | 8d 20h | 6,789 | 147K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 164 reached 100+ customers, 85 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Franklin 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 |
| Ohio Edison Co | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.01 | 1.5 hrs | 0.91 |
| 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 |
| Licking Rural Electric Inc | 2016 | 2.1 hrs | 1.00 | 2.1 hrs | 0.99 |
| Consolidated Cooperative | 2016 | 3.8 hrs | 2.27 | 2.3 hrs | 1.64 |
| Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 1.66 | 2.2 hrs | 1.66 |
| City of Westerville - (OH) | 2016 | 74 min | 1.22 | 74 min | 1.22 |
| City of Columbus - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Obetz - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 362,081 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county