County annual report · FIPS 39161
2016 Van Wert County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Van Wert County, OH went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Ohio average 2.9 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 622nd 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 Van Wert 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 | May 14, 2016 15:00 | May 14, 2016 17:30 | 2h 30m | 2,707 | 6,766 |
| 2 | June 13, 2016 17:30 | June 14, 2016 07:15 | 13h 45m | 1,536 | 17K |
| 3 | August 24, 2016 23:00 | August 25, 2016 09:15 | 10h 15m | 1,487 | 13K |
| 4 | January 10, 2016 15:00 | January 10, 2016 18:00 | 3h | 443 | 1,067 |
| 5 | April 2, 2016 20:00 | April 3, 2016 10:00 | 14h | 442 | 1,108 |
| 6 | August 25, 2016 21:30 | August 25, 2016 21:45 | 15m | 386 | 97 |
| 7 | May 31, 2016 15:45 | May 31, 2016 18:15 | 2h 30m | 282 | 214 |
| 8 | November 10, 2016 15:30 | November 10, 2016 17:15 | 1h 45m | 281 | 453 |
| 9 | July 23, 2016 15:15 | July 23, 2016 19:00 | 3h 45m | 144 | 540 |
| 10 | July 28, 2016 05:45 | July 28, 2016 11:30 | 5h 45m | 133 | 733 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 14 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Van Wert 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 |
| Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) | 2016 | 2.2 hrs | 1.40 | 85 min | 1.10 |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Ohio City - (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 ÷ 8,328 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. Van Wert County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Van Wert 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/van-wert-county