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2019 Franklin County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Franklin County, OH went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 88 Ohio counties and 933rd 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 Franklin 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 07:30 | December 31, 2019 00:15 | 16h 45m | 20,306 | 107K |
| 2 | February 23, 2019 03:15 | March 2, 2019 00:45 | 6d 21h | 17,697 | 191K |
| 3 | September 27, 2019 07:00 | October 6, 2019 08:15 | 9d 1h | 14,517 | 57K |
| 4 | November 27, 2019 07:15 | November 29, 2019 02:15 | 1d 19h | 9,846 | 61K |
| 5 | September 1, 2019 17:45 | September 5, 2019 05:45 | 3d 12h | 9,803 | 81K |
| 6 | July 8, 2019 10:30 | July 13, 2019 06:00 | 4d 19h | 9,533 | 32K |
| 7 | November 8, 2019 09:15 | November 13, 2019 10:45 | 5d 1h | 9,348 | 38K |
| 8 | July 20, 2019 10:30 | July 27, 2019 02:15 | 6d 15h | 9,271 | 67K |
| 9 | January 10, 2019 05:15 | January 10, 2019 13:15 | 8h | 8,829 | 8,361 |
| 10 | January 7, 2019 12:45 | January 10, 2019 04:00 | 2d 15h | 8,821 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 159 reached 100+ customers, 103 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 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 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 2019; 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, 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/franklin-county