County annual report · FIPS 39037
2020 Darke County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Darke County, OH went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 94K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1265th 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 Darke 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 | November 15, 2020 15:00 | November 19, 2020 23:45 | 4d 8h | 3,549 | 49K |
| 2 | August 24, 2020 13:15 | August 24, 2020 21:15 | 8h | 3,293 | 8,221 |
| 3 | July 11, 2020 14:00 | July 11, 2020 18:15 | 4h 15m | 1,962 | 3,927 |
| 4 | June 21, 2020 21:15 | June 22, 2020 02:30 | 5h 15m | 1,282 | 712 |
| 5 | April 13, 2020 21:30 | April 14, 2020 01:30 | 4h | 1,241 | 344 |
| 6 | May 18, 2020 15:00 | May 18, 2020 23:45 | 8h 45m | 940 | 1,424 |
| 7 | July 21, 2020 21:30 | July 22, 2020 14:30 | 17h | 629 | 2,454 |
| 8 | March 28, 2020 18:00 | March 29, 2020 01:30 | 7h 30m | 606 | 671 |
| 9 | September 21, 2020 09:45 | September 21, 2020 12:00 | 2h 15m | 578 | 868 |
| 10 | August 5, 2020 19:45 | August 5, 2020 21:00 | 1h 15m | 460 | 346 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 38 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Darke 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 |
| Dayton Power & Light Co | 2020 | 2.9 hrs | 1.10 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 |
| Pioneer Rural Elec Coop, Inc - (OH) | 2020 | 2.2 hrs | 1.47 | 1.5 hrs | 1.14 |
| Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) | 2020 | 4.6 hrs | 2.25 | 1.6 hrs | 1.10 |
| Darke Rural Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Arcanum - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Versailles - (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 ÷ 16,124 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. Darke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Darke 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/darke-county