County annual report · FIPS 39009
2018 Athens County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Athens County, OH went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 276K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.1 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 891st of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with OH, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Ohio customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Athens County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 13, 2018 10:30 | August 13, 2018 21:00 | 10h 30m | 4,151 | 20K |
| 2 | September 5, 2018 10:30 | September 5, 2018 20:15 | 9h 45m | 2,498 | 5,225 |
| 3 | January 23, 2018 05:30 | January 23, 2018 19:15 | 13h 45m | 2,438 | 20K |
| 4 | May 16, 2018 11:15 | May 16, 2018 22:00 | 10h 45m | 2,427 | 15K |
| 5 | December 13, 2018 13:30 | December 14, 2018 01:45 | 12h 15m | 2,174 | 9,094 |
| 6 | January 3, 2018 11:15 | January 3, 2018 20:00 | 8h 45m | 2,146 | 8,076 |
| 7 | June 26, 2018 15:15 | June 28, 2018 19:30 | 2d 4h | 2,018 | 18K |
| 8 | August 14, 2018 00:00 | August 14, 2018 14:00 | 14h | 1,720 | 4,321 |
| 9 | February 27, 2018 09:30 | February 27, 2018 18:15 | 8h 45m | 1,608 | 6,222 |
| 10 | February 7, 2018 09:15 | February 8, 2018 23:30 | 1d 14h | 1,530 | 7,151 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 93 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Athens County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 4.3 hrs | 1.57 | 3.6 hrs | 1.46 |
| Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Washington Electric Coop - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Glouster - (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 93% of Ohio's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 44,829 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. Athens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Athens County, OH annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/ohio/athens-county