County annual report · FIPS 39161
2018 Van Wert County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Van Wert County, OH went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.1 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1609th 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 Van Wert 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 | June 28, 2018 20:15 | June 28, 2018 23:15 | 3h | 1,504 | 3,009 |
| 2 | August 30, 2018 08:45 | August 30, 2018 10:30 | 1h 45m | 1,370 | 2,398 |
| 3 | November 17, 2018 12:30 | November 17, 2018 14:00 | 1h 30m | 950 | 479 |
| 4 | November 19, 2018 14:00 | November 19, 2018 17:30 | 3h 30m | 948 | 2,373 |
| 5 | October 23, 2018 12:30 | October 23, 2018 13:00 | 30m | 448 | 224 |
| 6 | June 29, 2018 22:00 | June 30, 2018 02:45 | 4h 45m | 363 | 1,006 |
| 7 | January 23, 2018 04:15 | January 23, 2018 09:45 | 5h 30m | 349 | 617 |
| 8 | February 7, 2018 10:15 | February 7, 2018 10:30 | 15m | 340 | 85 |
| 9 | September 30, 2018 20:00 | October 1, 2018 01:30 | 5h 30m | 317 | 725 |
| 10 | August 21, 2018 09:45 | August 21, 2018 16:45 | 7h | 234 | 470 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 19 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Van Wert 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 |
| Dayton Power & Light Co | 2018 | 3.2 hrs | 1.14 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 |
| Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.28 | 59 min | 0.94 |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Ohio City - (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 ÷ 8,328 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. Van Wert County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Van Wert 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/van-wert-county