County annual report · FIPS 39043
2017 Erie County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Erie County, OH went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 130K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.1 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1458th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with OH, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Ohio customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Erie County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 31, 2017 00:15 | July 31, 2017 01:15 | 1h | 9,245 | 7,549 |
| 2 | April 6, 2017 02:30 | April 6, 2017 06:30 | 4h | 6,141 | 9,218 |
| 3 | April 6, 2017 09:00 | April 6, 2017 22:15 | 13h 15m | 3,606 | 9,178 |
| 4 | March 8, 2017 16:15 | March 11, 2017 00:45 | 2d 8h | 2,357 | 9,810 |
| 5 | October 26, 2017 13:45 | October 27, 2017 01:45 | 12h | 1,933 | 3,902 |
| 6 | January 29, 2017 09:00 | January 29, 2017 10:45 | 1h 45m | 1,770 | 3,096 |
| 7 | May 16, 2017 00:00 | May 16, 2017 17:45 | 17h 45m | 1,542 | 5,538 |
| 8 | June 17, 2017 11:00 | June 17, 2017 16:00 | 5h | 1,538 | 3,345 |
| 9 | June 10, 2017 18:45 | June 11, 2017 00:00 | 5h 15m | 1,367 | 2,105 |
| 10 | November 5, 2017 20:00 | November 8, 2017 05:00 | 2d 9h | 1,221 | 5,344 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 74 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Erie County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 Edison Co | 2017 | 4.7 hrs | 1.36 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| Hancock-Wood Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 1.20 | 90 min | 0.94 |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | - | 68 min | - |
| Village of Milan - (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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 50,780 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie County, OH annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/ohio/erie-county