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2016 Richland County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Richland County, OH went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 107K customer-hours (Ohio average 2.9 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1646th 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 Richland 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 | August 28, 2016 19:45 | August 29, 2016 06:00 | 10h 15m | 3,054 | 3,840 |
| 2 | August 29, 2016 20:30 | August 29, 2016 22:45 | 2h 15m | 3,054 | 777 |
| 3 | February 23, 2016 20:15 | February 24, 2016 01:00 | 4h 45m | 2,142 | 5,195 |
| 4 | August 9, 2016 19:45 | August 11, 2016 14:30 | 1d 18h | 2,100 | 11K |
| 5 | November 29, 2016 04:45 | November 29, 2016 18:15 | 13h 30m | 1,934 | 5,079 |
| 6 | November 28, 2016 18:30 | November 29, 2016 01:00 | 6h 30m | 1,614 | 1,147 |
| 7 | March 16, 2016 13:45 | March 17, 2016 03:00 | 13h 15m | 1,585 | 1,631 |
| 8 | October 2, 2016 07:45 | October 2, 2016 15:30 | 7h 45m | 1,552 | 4,777 |
| 9 | January 2, 2016 18:30 | January 3, 2016 00:45 | 6h 15m | 1,534 | 1,539 |
| 10 | July 9, 2016 11:30 | July 9, 2016 15:45 | 4h 15m | 1,438 | 2,557 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 60 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Richland 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 |
| 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 |
| North Central Elec Coop, Inc - (OH) | 2016 | 36 min | - | 36 min | - |
| Firelands Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | - | 1.9 hrs | - |
| City of Galion | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelby - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Lucas - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Plymouth - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Shiloh - (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 ÷ 84,801 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county