County annual report · FIPS 39141
2016 Ross County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ross County, OH went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 259K customer-hours (Ohio average 2.9 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 670th 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 Ross 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 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 27, 2016 12:45 | 4d 2h | 14,302 | 133K |
| 2 | June 23, 2016 08:00 | June 23, 2016 10:00 | 2h | 8,855 | 12K |
| 3 | August 15, 2016 11:45 | August 16, 2016 03:30 | 15h 45m | 5,301 | 7,208 |
| 4 | July 25, 2016 22:45 | July 26, 2016 16:15 | 17h 30m | 3,184 | 1,563 |
| 5 | November 9, 2016 10:45 | November 9, 2016 12:30 | 1h 45m | 3,170 | 3,595 |
| 6 | December 6, 2016 12:00 | December 6, 2016 23:15 | 11h 15m | 2,399 | 15K |
| 7 | August 18, 2016 12:00 | August 18, 2016 20:00 | 8h | 2,000 | 2,522 |
| 8 | December 17, 2016 10:45 | December 17, 2016 11:00 | 15m | 1,979 | 495 |
| 9 | December 15, 2016 12:15 | December 15, 2016 17:00 | 4h 45m | 1,960 | 4,902 |
| 10 | December 5, 2016 13:45 | December 5, 2016 15:00 | 1h 15m | 1,958 | 492 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 89 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Ross 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 |
| Dayton Power & Light Co | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 0.92 | 88 min | 0.77 |
| 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 |
| Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 52,738 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. Ross County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ross 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/ross-county