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2018 Richland County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Richland County, OH went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 188K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.1 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1767th 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 Richland 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 22, 2018 00:30 | May 23, 2018 08:45 | 1d 8h | 4,104 | 25K |
| 2 | March 1, 2018 22:15 | March 3, 2018 04:45 | 1d 6h | 3,719 | 18K |
| 3 | September 8, 2018 11:30 | September 9, 2018 02:15 | 14h 45m | 3,499 | 6,226 |
| 4 | September 21, 2018 18:45 | September 22, 2018 21:00 | 1d 2h | 3,374 | 11K |
| 5 | July 17, 2018 20:15 | July 18, 2018 05:45 | 9h 30m | 3,209 | 5,538 |
| 6 | July 23, 2018 19:00 | July 24, 2018 11:00 | 16h | 1,932 | 2,343 |
| 7 | November 15, 2018 11:30 | November 17, 2018 22:30 | 2d 11h | 1,923 | 27K |
| 8 | December 9, 2018 03:00 | December 9, 2018 05:45 | 2h 45m | 1,895 | 2,372 |
| 9 | December 7, 2018 11:45 | December 7, 2018 14:00 | 2h 15m | 1,889 | 2,630 |
| 10 | July 22, 2018 09:15 | July 22, 2018 10:45 | 1h 30m | 1,867 | 2,786 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 82 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Richland 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 |
| 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 |
| North Central Elec Coop, Inc - (OH) | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | - | 1.8 hrs | - |
| Firelands Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| City of Galion | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelby - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Lucas - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Plymouth - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Shiloh - (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 ÷ 84,801 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county