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2020 Athens County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Athens County, OH went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 275K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1218th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with OH, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Ohio customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Athens County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 15, 2020 12:00 | September 15, 2020 22:15 | 10h 15m | 14,914 | 15K |
| 2 | September 11, 2020 00:00 | September 11, 2020 00:15 | 15m | 14,880 | 3,720 |
| 3 | September 11, 2020 02:45 | September 11, 2020 03:00 | 15m | 14,880 | 3,720 |
| 4 | September 11, 2020 04:15 | September 11, 2020 04:30 | 15m | 14,880 | 3,720 |
| 5 | July 10, 2020 19:30 | July 11, 2020 22:00 | 1d 2h | 3,860 | 2,769 |
| 6 | June 10, 2020 23:15 | June 14, 2020 00:30 | 3d 1h | 3,820 | 61K |
| 7 | September 16, 2020 12:30 | September 16, 2020 18:15 | 5h 45m | 2,560 | 958 |
| 8 | January 11, 2020 18:30 | January 13, 2020 05:30 | 1d 11h | 2,525 | 15K |
| 9 | May 9, 2020 00:00 | May 9, 2020 04:15 | 4h 15m | 2,356 | 1,038 |
| 10 | November 1, 2020 14:45 | November 3, 2020 02:30 | 1d 11h | 1,938 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 83 reached 100+ customers, 24 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Athens County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 4.2 hrs | 1.43 | 2.8 hrs | 1.24 |
| Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 8.3 hrs | 2.02 | 8.3 hrs | 2.02 |
| Washington Electric Coop - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Glouster - (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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 44,829 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. Athens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Athens County, OH annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/ohio/athens-county