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2018 Franklin County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Franklin County, OH went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 2.2M customer-hours (Ohio average 4.1 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 904th 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 Franklin 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 | May 10, 2018 07:15 | May 24, 2018 23:15 | 14d 16h | 19,342 | 129K |
| 2 | May 25, 2018 10:15 | June 16, 2018 07:15 | 21d 21h | 17,961 | 287K |
| 3 | March 13, 2018 10:00 | March 15, 2018 10:00 | 2d | 12,333 | 19K |
| 4 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 30, 2018 04:30 | 15d | 12,025 | 73K |
| 5 | April 18, 2018 10:30 | April 29, 2018 04:30 | 10d 18h | 9,716 | 55K |
| 6 | April 2, 2018 13:00 | April 10, 2018 09:45 | 7d 20h | 8,942 | 171K |
| 7 | November 10, 2018 15:00 | November 18, 2018 05:45 | 7d 14h | 7,726 | 57K |
| 8 | October 20, 2018 11:00 | October 31, 2018 07:00 | 10d 20h | 7,629 | 102K |
| 9 | July 19, 2018 00:15 | July 25, 2018 08:00 | 6d 7h | 7,296 | 43K |
| 10 | June 16, 2018 09:00 | July 15, 2018 10:45 | 29d 1h | 7,096 | 295K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 105 reached 100+ customers, 56 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Franklin 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 |
| Ohio Edison Co | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.33 | 1.8 hrs | 1.06 |
| South Central Power Company | 2018 | 9.9 hrs | 3.36 | 5.8 hrs | 2.46 |
| Duke Energy Ohio Inc | 2018 | 5.3 hrs | 1.54 | 2.4 hrs | 1.15 |
| Licking Rural Electric Inc | 2018 | 5.8 hrs | 2.11 | 2.6 hrs | 1.40 |
| Consolidated Cooperative | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.39 | 82 min | 1.02 |
| Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 2.61 | 1.9 hrs | 1.64 |
| City of Westerville - (OH) | 2018 | 57 min | 1.02 | 25 min | 0.58 |
| City of Columbus - (OH) | 2018 | 6.5 hrs | 3.50 | 6.5 hrs | 3.50 |
| Village of Obetz - (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 ÷ 362,081 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county