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2019 Van Wert County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Van Wert County, OH went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 69K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 684th 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 Van Wert 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 | February 12, 2019 00:15 | February 12, 2019 21:00 | 20h 45m | 4,821 | 24K |
| 2 | May 23, 2019 10:15 | May 24, 2019 04:30 | 18h 15m | 3,084 | 4,730 |
| 3 | November 14, 2019 12:30 | November 14, 2019 19:15 | 6h 45m | 2,891 | 1,692 |
| 4 | November 27, 2019 14:30 | November 28, 2019 13:45 | 23h 15m | 1,914 | 6,346 |
| 5 | June 17, 2019 09:15 | June 17, 2019 18:15 | 9h | 1,369 | 1,504 |
| 6 | April 4, 2019 16:45 | April 4, 2019 18:45 | 2h | 1,316 | 1,941 |
| 7 | October 8, 2019 15:45 | October 8, 2019 17:30 | 1h 45m | 1,160 | 1,562 |
| 8 | September 25, 2019 13:00 | September 25, 2019 14:30 | 1h 30m | 895 | 310 |
| 9 | March 14, 2019 20:00 | March 15, 2019 04:45 | 8h 45m | 832 | 2,323 |
| 10 | November 6, 2019 14:30 | November 6, 2019 16:00 | 1h 30m | 828 | 416 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 30 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 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 |
| 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 2019; 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, 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/van-wert-county