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2017 Lorain County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lorain County, OH went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 304K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.1 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1366th 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 Lorain 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 | March 8, 2017 13:30 | March 11, 2017 06:45 | 2d 17h | 12,545 | 62K |
| 2 | November 5, 2017 22:30 | November 9, 2017 00:45 | 3d 2h | 6,865 | 42K |
| 3 | August 4, 2017 03:00 | August 5, 2017 10:00 | 1d 7h | 5,264 | 11K |
| 4 | May 29, 2017 15:30 | May 29, 2017 18:15 | 2h 45m | 5,205 | 3,791 |
| 5 | April 6, 2017 23:15 | April 7, 2017 22:00 | 22h 45m | 5,115 | 5,240 |
| 6 | January 1, 2017 00:00 | January 13, 2017 08:45 | 12d 8h | 5,070 | 25K |
| 7 | November 24, 2017 19:15 | November 24, 2017 21:30 | 2h 15m | 3,972 | 4,117 |
| 8 | May 16, 2017 12:30 | May 16, 2017 15:15 | 2h 45m | 3,126 | 3,999 |
| 9 | March 17, 2017 19:00 | March 18, 2017 02:30 | 7h 30m | 3,087 | 1,036 |
| 10 | August 25, 2017 13:15 | August 26, 2017 02:45 | 13h 30m | 3,039 | 1,306 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 139 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Lorain 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 |
| Cleveland Electric Illum Co | 2017 | 4.7 hrs | 1.34 | 2.0 hrs | 1.06 |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | - | 68 min | - |
| Firelands Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 8.9 hrs | - | 8.0 hrs | - |
| City of Amherst- (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Oberlin - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Grafton - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Wellington - (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 ÷ 106,179 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. Lorain County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lorain 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/lorain-county