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2020 Lorain County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lorain County, OH went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 470K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1508th 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 Lorain 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 | April 8, 2020 02:15 | April 10, 2020 10:45 | 2d 8h | 10,582 | 63K |
| 2 | November 1, 2020 13:30 | November 4, 2020 00:00 | 2d 10h | 9,064 | 14K |
| 3 | December 3, 2020 11:45 | December 4, 2020 20:00 | 1d 8h | 8,373 | 8,054 |
| 4 | November 15, 2020 11:30 | November 20, 2020 09:45 | 4d 22h | 5,027 | 117K |
| 5 | June 10, 2020 17:30 | June 13, 2020 05:45 | 2d 12h | 3,840 | 57K |
| 6 | May 24, 2020 09:00 | May 24, 2020 11:30 | 2h 30m | 3,781 | 2,415 |
| 7 | December 7, 2020 11:45 | December 8, 2020 01:00 | 13h 15m | 3,438 | 3,714 |
| 8 | August 10, 2020 18:30 | August 11, 2020 03:15 | 8h 45m | 3,386 | 5,083 |
| 9 | July 15, 2020 19:30 | July 16, 2020 07:45 | 12h 15m | 3,366 | 9,990 |
| 10 | July 10, 2020 12:00 | July 12, 2020 04:30 | 1d 16h | 3,128 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 130 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 Lorain 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 |
| Cleveland Electric Illum Co | 2020 | 9.1 hrs | 1.57 | 1.9 hrs | 0.97 |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | 2020 | 3.7 hrs | - | 2.9 hrs | - |
| Firelands Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| City of Amherst- (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Oberlin - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Grafton - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Wellington - (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 ÷ 106,179 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. Lorain County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lorain 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/lorain-county