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2020 Franklin County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Franklin County, OH went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 2.4M customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1152nd 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 Franklin 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 10:30 | September 16, 2020 07:15 | 20h 45m | 153,200 | 160K |
| 2 | September 9, 2020 10:15 | September 11, 2020 04:30 | 1d 18h | 153,123 | 122K |
| 3 | November 14, 2020 11:30 | November 21, 2020 05:30 | 6d 18h | 23,495 | 227K |
| 4 | June 9, 2020 05:00 | June 14, 2020 01:45 | 4d 20h | 17,095 | 183K |
| 5 | July 19, 2020 10:45 | July 24, 2020 04:15 | 4d 17h | 16,549 | 101K |
| 6 | November 30, 2020 08:15 | December 2, 2020 02:30 | 1d 18h | 13,207 | 28K |
| 7 | May 10, 2020 18:15 | May 13, 2020 01:45 | 2d 7h | 12,584 | 100K |
| 8 | June 24, 2020 10:00 | July 2, 2020 04:45 | 7d 18h | 12,408 | 46K |
| 9 | July 24, 2020 10:30 | August 2, 2020 00:30 | 8d 14h | 10,508 | 136K |
| 10 | September 7, 2020 11:45 | September 9, 2020 06:30 | 1d 18h | 8,813 | 49K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 197 reached 100+ customers, 111 reached 1,000+ customers, 9 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 Franklin 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 |
| Ohio Edison Co | 2020 | 5.7 hrs | 1.45 | 1.8 hrs | 1.07 |
| South Central Power Company | 2020 | 5.4 hrs | 2.11 | 4.2 hrs | 1.81 |
| Duke Energy Ohio Inc | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 1.13 | 1.8 hrs | 0.92 |
| Licking Rural Electric Inc | 2020 | 4.3 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.21 |
| Consolidated Cooperative | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 1.92 | 1.7 hrs | 1.42 |
| Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 70 min | 0.91 | 61 min | 0.83 |
| City of Westerville - (OH) | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 1.54 | 52 min | 1.09 |
| City of Columbus - (OH) | 2020 | 3.6 hrs | 2.35 | 3.6 hrs | 2.35 |
| Village of Obetz - (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 ÷ 362,081 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county