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2020 Knox County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Knox County, OH went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 269K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1161st 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 Knox 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 11, 2020 00:00 | September 11, 2020 00:15 | 15m | 7,472 | 1,868 |
| 2 | September 11, 2020 02:45 | September 11, 2020 03:00 | 15m | 7,472 | 1,868 |
| 3 | September 11, 2020 04:15 | September 11, 2020 04:30 | 15m | 7,472 | 1,868 |
| 4 | September 15, 2020 12:45 | September 15, 2020 19:00 | 6h 15m | 7,471 | 7,497 |
| 5 | June 10, 2020 16:30 | June 13, 2020 02:15 | 2d 9h | 6,866 | 88K |
| 6 | November 15, 2020 17:30 | November 18, 2020 07:30 | 2d 14h | 5,183 | 29K |
| 7 | September 7, 2020 21:00 | September 9, 2020 11:30 | 1d 14h | 3,293 | 41K |
| 8 | December 16, 2020 13:15 | December 16, 2020 19:30 | 6h 15m | 2,595 | 2,046 |
| 9 | August 27, 2020 11:45 | August 29, 2020 20:00 | 2d 8h | 2,227 | 12K |
| 10 | June 16, 2020 21:45 | June 17, 2020 03:00 | 5h 15m | 2,208 | 1,151 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 56 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Knox 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 |
| 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 |
| Frontier Power Company | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.43 | 2.2 hrs | 1.43 |
| Holmes-Wayne Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 9.2 hrs | 2.95 | 4.6 hrs | 2.19 |
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 ÷ 41,371 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. Knox County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knox 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/knox-county