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2017 Franklin County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Franklin County, OH went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 2.5M customer-hours (Ohio average 4.1 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 761st 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 Franklin 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 | November 5, 2017 05:00 | November 20, 2017 06:45 | 15d 1h | 16,969 | 275K |
| 2 | September 20, 2017 12:15 | September 22, 2017 09:00 | 1d 20h | 15,197 | 62K |
| 3 | July 7, 2017 11:30 | August 14, 2017 14:00 | 38d 2h | 13,257 | 564K |
| 4 | December 18, 2017 13:15 | December 29, 2017 11:30 | 10d 22h | 13,122 | 41K |
| 5 | May 16, 2017 11:00 | May 17, 2017 17:30 | 1d 6h | 12,966 | 49K |
| 6 | September 22, 2017 10:00 | September 23, 2017 09:30 | 23h 30m | 10,941 | 44K |
| 7 | January 5, 2017 01:00 | January 5, 2017 05:00 | 4h | 8,448 | 17K |
| 8 | December 8, 2017 10:45 | December 17, 2017 03:45 | 8d 17h | 8,179 | 53K |
| 9 | June 2, 2017 11:15 | June 23, 2017 09:00 | 20d 21h | 6,926 | 247K |
| 10 | April 16, 2017 18:45 | April 18, 2017 21:15 | 2d 2h | 6,542 | 7,646 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 117 reached 100+ customers, 69 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 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 Power Co | 2017 | 4.2 hrs | 1.47 | 3.3 hrs | 1.32 |
| Ohio Edison Co | 2017 | 4.7 hrs | 1.36 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| South Central Power Company | 2017 | 6.7 hrs | 2.55 | 4.5 hrs | 2.04 |
| Duke Energy Ohio Inc | 2017 | 4.4 hrs | 1.47 | 2.6 hrs | 1.28 |
| Licking Rural Electric Inc | 2017 | 4.7 hrs | 1.93 | 2.3 hrs | 1.27 |
| Consolidated Cooperative | 2017 | 3.9 hrs | 3.06 | 2.0 hrs | 1.92 |
| Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.7 hrs | 1.43 | 62 min | 0.81 |
| City of Westerville - (OH) | 2017 | 66 min | 0.96 | 66 min | 0.96 |
| City of Columbus - (OH) | 2017 | 5.0 hrs | 1.73 | 5.0 hrs | 1.73 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/franklin-county