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2020 Defiance County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Defiance County, OH went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1808th 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 Defiance 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 28, 2020 23:30 | September 29, 2020 10:00 | 10h 30m | 1,462 | 1,967 |
| 2 | September 10, 2020 21:45 | September 11, 2020 03:00 | 5h 15m | 1,363 | 699 |
| 3 | September 11, 2020 04:15 | September 11, 2020 04:30 | 15m | 1,363 | 341 |
| 4 | September 15, 2020 14:15 | September 15, 2020 16:30 | 2h 15m | 1,363 | 1,365 |
| 5 | August 11, 2020 00:15 | August 11, 2020 16:00 | 15h 45m | 1,255 | 5,433 |
| 6 | June 1, 2020 12:15 | June 1, 2020 14:30 | 2h 15m | 1,220 | 313 |
| 7 | November 15, 2020 16:00 | November 17, 2020 22:15 | 2d 6h | 1,154 | 7,774 |
| 8 | June 10, 2020 19:45 | June 11, 2020 20:45 | 1d 1h | 1,037 | 3,685 |
| 9 | June 12, 2020 07:00 | June 12, 2020 08:15 | 1h 15m | 1,016 | 1,270 |
| 10 | May 17, 2020 15:30 | May 17, 2020 20:15 | 4h 45m | 768 | 3,065 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 26 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Defiance 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 |
| The Toledo Edison Co | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.80 | 67 min | 0.69 |
| North Western Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 65 min | 0.81 | - | - |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,228 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. Defiance County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Defiance 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/defiance-county