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2020 Van Wert County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Van Wert County, OH went without power for an average of 13.5 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (Ohio average 5.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 611th 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 Van Wert 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 | October 10, 2020 23:15 | October 11, 2020 03:30 | 4h 15m | 5,498 | 20K |
| 2 | September 11, 2020 00:00 | September 11, 2020 00:15 | 15m | 4,763 | 1,191 |
| 3 | September 11, 2020 02:45 | September 11, 2020 03:00 | 15m | 4,763 | 1,191 |
| 4 | September 11, 2020 04:15 | September 11, 2020 04:30 | 15m | 4,763 | 1,191 |
| 5 | September 15, 2020 15:15 | September 15, 2020 18:30 | 3h 15m | 4,763 | 4,770 |
| 6 | October 9, 2020 12:30 | October 9, 2020 18:45 | 6h 15m | 3,624 | 9,138 |
| 7 | June 18, 2020 12:00 | June 18, 2020 19:30 | 7h 30m | 3,617 | 22K |
| 8 | November 15, 2020 15:15 | November 16, 2020 17:45 | 1d 2h | 1,912 | 8,301 |
| 9 | June 20, 2020 12:45 | June 21, 2020 04:45 | 16h | 1,874 | 14K |
| 10 | July 23, 2020 11:45 | July 23, 2020 17:45 | 6h | 1,400 | 2,223 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 38 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Van Wert 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 |
| Dayton Power & Light Co | 2020 | 2.9 hrs | 1.10 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 |
| Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) | 2020 | 4.6 hrs | 2.25 | 1.6 hrs | 1.10 |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Ohio City - (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 ÷ 8,328 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. Van Wert County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Van Wert 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/van-wert-county