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2017 Van Wert County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Van Wert County, OH went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.1 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 955th 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 Van Wert 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 10, 2017 13:45 | July 10, 2017 21:45 | 8h | 2,878 | 749 |
| 2 | April 5, 2017 12:30 | April 5, 2017 14:45 | 2h 15m | 1,842 | 868 |
| 3 | May 18, 2017 22:30 | May 22, 2017 06:00 | 3d 7h | 1,632 | 28K |
| 4 | June 23, 2017 18:15 | June 23, 2017 20:00 | 1h 45m | 1,478 | 1,849 |
| 5 | November 25, 2017 13:45 | November 25, 2017 18:00 | 4h 15m | 947 | 265 |
| 6 | March 8, 2017 20:30 | March 9, 2017 19:45 | 23h 15m | 319 | 1,496 |
| 7 | March 25, 2017 12:30 | March 25, 2017 18:00 | 5h 30m | 314 | 1,643 |
| 8 | June 4, 2017 20:15 | June 5, 2017 06:00 | 9h 45m | 260 | 830 |
| 9 | October 11, 2017 10:30 | October 11, 2017 13:00 | 2h 30m | 236 | 583 |
| 10 | February 18, 2017 13:15 | February 18, 2017 15:15 | 2h | 232 | 350 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 13 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
| Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.06 | 77 min | 0.75 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/van-wert-county