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2017 Ross County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ross County, OH went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 192K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.1 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1175th 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 Ross 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 | May 16, 2017 20:30 | May 17, 2017 01:15 | 4h 45m | 6,629 | 13K |
| 2 | April 19, 2017 11:15 | April 20, 2017 05:30 | 18h 15m | 2,802 | 4,001 |
| 3 | April 29, 2017 02:00 | May 1, 2017 10:30 | 2d 8h | 2,661 | 24K |
| 4 | August 8, 2017 16:45 | August 8, 2017 22:00 | 5h 15m | 2,467 | 636 |
| 5 | December 12, 2017 13:15 | December 12, 2017 20:00 | 6h 45m | 2,215 | 9,336 |
| 6 | June 18, 2017 22:45 | June 19, 2017 02:00 | 3h 15m | 2,071 | 2,413 |
| 7 | March 1, 2017 06:00 | March 2, 2017 19:00 | 1d 13h | 1,969 | 14K |
| 8 | July 29, 2017 04:00 | July 29, 2017 15:15 | 11h 15m | 1,905 | 11K |
| 9 | January 12, 2017 04:45 | January 13, 2017 00:30 | 19h 45m | 1,879 | 2,030 |
| 10 | August 19, 2017 08:00 | August 19, 2017 10:30 | 2h 30m | 1,877 | 4,693 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 82 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Ross 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 |
| Dayton Power & Light Co | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.06 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 |
| 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/ross-county