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2018 Lorain County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lorain County, OH went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 408K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.1 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1290th 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 Lorain 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 | March 1, 2018 17:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 4d 7h | 10,535 | 101K |
| 2 | October 20, 2018 14:15 | October 23, 2018 02:30 | 2d 12h | 8,330 | 90K |
| 3 | May 14, 2018 09:00 | May 14, 2018 20:15 | 11h 15m | 5,512 | 17K |
| 4 | February 6, 2018 06:45 | February 6, 2018 07:30 | 45m | 5,278 | 2,640 |
| 5 | September 26, 2018 08:00 | September 27, 2018 00:45 | 16h 45m | 5,267 | 6,671 |
| 6 | November 20, 2018 11:45 | November 20, 2018 17:30 | 5h 45m | 4,566 | 10K |
| 7 | May 25, 2018 15:45 | May 25, 2018 22:00 | 6h 15m | 4,141 | 7,624 |
| 8 | August 7, 2018 03:30 | August 8, 2018 03:45 | 1d | 3,853 | 14K |
| 9 | November 6, 2018 08:30 | November 7, 2018 07:00 | 22h 30m | 3,216 | 5,852 |
| 10 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 9, 2018 21:00 | 3d 17h | 3,184 | 9,171 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 134 reached 100+ customers, 28 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Lorain 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 |
| Cleveland Electric Illum Co | 2018 | 4.9 hrs | 1.25 | 2.1 hrs | 0.97 |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Firelands Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| City of Amherst- (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Oberlin - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Grafton - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Wellington - (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 ÷ 106,179 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. Lorain County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lorain 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/lorain-county