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2020 Belmont County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Belmont County, OH went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 294K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1147th 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 Belmont 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 10, 2020 18:45 | September 11, 2020 00:45 | 6h | 10,675 | 2,686 |
| 2 | September 11, 2020 02:45 | September 11, 2020 03:00 | 15m | 10,673 | 2,668 |
| 3 | September 11, 2020 04:15 | September 11, 2020 04:30 | 15m | 10,673 | 2,668 |
| 4 | September 15, 2020 12:45 | September 15, 2020 20:45 | 8h | 10,659 | 11K |
| 5 | March 29, 2020 12:45 | March 30, 2020 18:45 | 1d 6h | 8,442 | 28K |
| 6 | August 25, 2020 16:45 | August 27, 2020 09:30 | 1d 16h | 6,575 | 48K |
| 7 | November 15, 2020 18:30 | November 17, 2020 20:00 | 2d 1h | 4,009 | 53K |
| 8 | January 11, 2020 14:30 | January 12, 2020 01:00 | 10h 30m | 3,562 | 10K |
| 9 | June 11, 2020 00:30 | June 13, 2020 10:45 | 2d 10h | 1,744 | 29K |
| 10 | August 4, 2020 12:45 | August 4, 2020 14:15 | 1h 30m | 1,714 | 2,567 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 86 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Belmont 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 |
| South Central Power Company | 2020 | 5.4 hrs | 2.11 | 4.2 hrs | 1.81 |
| City of St Clairsville - (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 ÷ 44,590 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. Belmont County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Belmont 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/belmont-county