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2020 Muskingum County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Muskingum County, OH went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 421K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1125th 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 Muskingum 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 10, 2020 22:45 | September 11, 2020 00:15 | 1h 30m | 12,863 | 3,217 |
| 2 | September 11, 2020 01:00 | September 11, 2020 04:45 | 3h 45m | 12,862 | 6,445 |
| 3 | September 15, 2020 14:30 | September 15, 2020 22:15 | 7h 45m | 12,858 | 13K |
| 4 | June 10, 2020 12:00 | June 13, 2020 05:30 | 2d 17h | 10,335 | 181K |
| 5 | December 25, 2020 14:00 | December 26, 2020 00:45 | 10h 45m | 5,425 | 23K |
| 6 | April 17, 2020 13:30 | April 18, 2020 17:00 | 1d 3h | 3,954 | 26K |
| 7 | July 16, 2020 11:00 | July 16, 2020 19:45 | 8h 45m | 2,573 | 9,627 |
| 8 | November 15, 2020 12:45 | November 17, 2020 21:15 | 2d 8h | 2,301 | 24K |
| 9 | July 4, 2020 13:30 | July 5, 2020 21:45 | 1d 8h | 2,278 | 4,674 |
| 10 | March 29, 2020 14:15 | March 30, 2020 20:45 | 1d 6h | 2,079 | 4,330 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 85 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Muskingum 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 |
| 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 |
| Guernsey-Muskingum El Coop Inc | 2020 | 7.0 hrs | 2.40 | 5.6 hrs | 2.25 |
| Licking Rural Electric Inc | 2020 | 4.3 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.21 |
| Frontier Power Company | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.43 | 2.2 hrs | 1.43 |
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 ÷ 62,329 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. Muskingum County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Muskingum 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/muskingum-county