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2019 Erie County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Erie County, OH went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 150K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1668th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with OH, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Ohio customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Erie County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 30, 2019 10:45 | December 31, 2019 00:15 | 13h 30m | 12,168 | 37K |
| 2 | August 6, 2019 16:45 | August 7, 2019 03:30 | 10h 45m | 4,054 | 8,113 |
| 3 | December 9, 2019 15:00 | December 10, 2019 02:45 | 11h 45m | 3,858 | 3,894 |
| 4 | February 24, 2019 14:15 | February 27, 2019 01:45 | 2d 11h | 2,138 | 18K |
| 5 | November 27, 2019 15:15 | November 28, 2019 21:00 | 1d 5h | 1,241 | 3,511 |
| 6 | August 15, 2019 11:30 | August 15, 2019 13:15 | 1h 45m | 952 | 1,190 |
| 7 | September 13, 2019 23:15 | September 15, 2019 05:30 | 1d 6h | 951 | 3,765 |
| 8 | January 21, 2019 12:30 | January 21, 2019 14:00 | 1h 30m | 948 | 1,188 |
| 9 | February 3, 2019 16:30 | February 4, 2019 12:30 | 20h | 947 | 19K |
| 10 | December 6, 2019 14:00 | December 6, 2019 16:15 | 2h 15m | 912 | 243 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 72 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Erie County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/ohio/erie-county