County annual report · FIPS 39137
2020 Putnam County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Putnam County, OH went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1753rd 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 Putnam 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 | December 2, 2020 14:45 | December 2, 2020 16:30 | 1h 45m | 923 | 1,288 |
| 2 | September 10, 2020 23:00 | September 11, 2020 00:45 | 1h 45m | 669 | 177 |
| 3 | September 11, 2020 02:45 | September 11, 2020 03:00 | 15m | 660 | 165 |
| 4 | September 11, 2020 04:15 | September 11, 2020 04:30 | 15m | 660 | 165 |
| 5 | September 15, 2020 15:15 | September 15, 2020 16:30 | 1h 15m | 656 | 656 |
| 6 | October 13, 2020 14:00 | October 13, 2020 17:45 | 3h 45m | 593 | 798 |
| 7 | November 15, 2020 15:45 | November 16, 2020 06:15 | 14h 30m | 592 | 2,569 |
| 8 | June 10, 2020 19:45 | June 11, 2020 21:30 | 1d 1h | 528 | 4,384 |
| 9 | February 28, 2020 13:15 | February 28, 2020 18:00 | 4h 45m | 371 | 1,304 |
| 10 | August 11, 2020 01:00 | August 11, 2020 14:30 | 13h 30m | 295 | 3,980 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 18 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Putnam 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 |
| Hancock-Wood Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 2.9 hrs | 1.23 | 69 min | 0.85 |
| The Toledo Edison Co | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.80 | 67 min | 0.69 |
| Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) | 2020 | 4.6 hrs | 2.25 | 1.6 hrs | 1.10 |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tricounty Rural Elec Coop, Inc - (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 ÷ 8,912 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county