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2020 Richland County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Richland County, OH went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 314K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1690th 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 Richland 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 | November 15, 2020 10:30 | November 19, 2020 12:15 | 4d 1h | 8,084 | 131K |
| 2 | June 10, 2020 20:00 | June 13, 2020 22:45 | 3d 2h | 6,215 | 64K |
| 3 | December 15, 2020 19:15 | December 16, 2020 03:45 | 8h 30m | 6,138 | 6,220 |
| 4 | September 11, 2020 02:45 | September 11, 2020 04:45 | 2h | 4,317 | 2,169 |
| 5 | September 11, 2020 00:00 | September 11, 2020 00:15 | 15m | 4,307 | 1,077 |
| 6 | September 15, 2020 12:30 | September 15, 2020 16:30 | 4h | 4,288 | 4,303 |
| 7 | January 30, 2020 22:00 | January 31, 2020 10:45 | 12h 45m | 3,309 | 7,629 |
| 8 | June 4, 2020 14:15 | June 5, 2020 18:45 | 1d 4h | 2,855 | 5,301 |
| 9 | July 9, 2020 21:45 | July 10, 2020 06:30 | 8h 45m | 2,115 | 2,460 |
| 10 | January 15, 2020 03:00 | January 15, 2020 07:30 | 4h 30m | 1,304 | 2,284 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 85 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 Richland 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 |
| North Central Elec Coop, Inc - (OH) | 2020 | 89 min | - | 78 min | - |
| Firelands Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| City of Galion | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelby - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Lucas - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Plymouth - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Shiloh - (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 ÷ 84,801 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county