County annual report · FIPS 39043
2018 Erie County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Erie County, OH went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 112K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.1 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1773rd 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 Erie 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 24, 2018 12:45 | August 24, 2018 18:15 | 5h 30m | 9,253 | 7,407 |
| 2 | January 29, 2018 14:45 | January 30, 2018 03:30 | 12h 45m | 4,070 | 4,213 |
| 3 | March 1, 2018 20:45 | March 3, 2018 19:45 | 1d 23h | 3,045 | 22K |
| 4 | August 7, 2018 02:45 | August 8, 2018 17:45 | 1d 15h | 2,680 | 11K |
| 5 | October 12, 2018 09:45 | October 12, 2018 22:15 | 12h 30m | 2,605 | 3,346 |
| 6 | June 26, 2018 15:00 | June 26, 2018 19:45 | 4h 45m | 2,295 | 625 |
| 7 | September 21, 2018 19:00 | September 21, 2018 23:00 | 4h | 1,793 | 1,401 |
| 8 | November 6, 2018 08:15 | November 7, 2018 04:00 | 19h 45m | 1,260 | 4,026 |
| 9 | April 4, 2018 04:00 | April 4, 2018 20:00 | 16h | 1,176 | 2,419 |
| 10 | May 21, 2018 21:15 | May 21, 2018 23:45 | 2h 30m | 1,096 | 1,651 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 75 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Erie 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 Edison Co | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.33 | 1.8 hrs | 1.06 |
| Hancock-Wood Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 1.17 | 54 min | 0.92 |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Village of Milan - (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 ÷ 50,780 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county