County annual report · FIPS 39043
2020 Erie County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Erie County, OH went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 322K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1185th 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 Erie 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 | June 10, 2020 16:30 | June 14, 2020 20:30 | 4d 4h | 20,151 | 238K |
| 2 | December 3, 2020 11:45 | December 4, 2020 01:15 | 13h 30m | 5,283 | 6,564 |
| 3 | September 13, 2020 06:00 | September 13, 2020 06:30 | 30m | 3,846 | 1,923 |
| 4 | November 15, 2020 13:30 | November 19, 2020 22:00 | 4d 8h | 2,910 | 28K |
| 5 | November 23, 2020 12:15 | November 24, 2020 02:30 | 14h 15m | 2,619 | 755 |
| 6 | November 1, 2020 16:45 | November 2, 2020 07:45 | 15h | 2,306 | 1,485 |
| 7 | March 7, 2020 13:30 | March 7, 2020 22:45 | 9h 15m | 1,456 | 1,085 |
| 8 | July 9, 2020 20:15 | July 10, 2020 08:30 | 12h 15m | 1,202 | 2,007 |
| 9 | October 15, 2020 00:00 | October 15, 2020 15:00 | 15h | 1,013 | 1,622 |
| 10 | November 30, 2020 14:00 | December 1, 2020 05:15 | 15h 15m | 851 | 2,662 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 50 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Erie 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 Edison Co | 2020 | 5.7 hrs | 1.45 | 1.8 hrs | 1.07 |
| Hancock-Wood Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 2.9 hrs | 1.23 | 69 min | 0.85 |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | 2020 | 3.7 hrs | - | 2.9 hrs | - |
| Village of Milan - (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 ÷ 50,780 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county