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2021 Erie County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Erie County, OH went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 94K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.2 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 2287th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with OH, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Ohio customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Erie County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 28, 2021 14:15 | May 30, 2021 18:45 | 2d 4h | 12,732 | 13K |
| 2 | April 21, 2021 04:15 | April 22, 2021 01:45 | 21h 30m | 3,676 | 1,887 |
| 3 | July 6, 2021 20:15 | July 7, 2021 00:30 | 4h 15m | 2,622 | 3,249 |
| 4 | August 26, 2021 21:30 | August 27, 2021 06:00 | 8h 30m | 2,546 | 5,971 |
| 5 | December 17, 2021 19:30 | December 18, 2021 03:00 | 7h 30m | 2,476 | 4,483 |
| 6 | March 26, 2021 09:15 | March 26, 2021 22:45 | 13h 30m | 1,660 | 4,246 |
| 7 | December 11, 2021 06:15 | December 13, 2021 07:45 | 2d 1h | 1,229 | 7,653 |
| 8 | January 14, 2021 00:00 | January 14, 2021 02:45 | 2h 45m | 1,214 | 622 |
| 9 | November 5, 2021 02:15 | November 5, 2021 04:45 | 2h 30m | 1,203 | 310 |
| 10 | September 22, 2021 09:00 | September 24, 2021 18:30 | 2d 9h | 1,145 | 4,115 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 59 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Erie County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 2.7 hrs | 1.40 | 1.9 hrs | 1.23 |
| Hancock-Wood Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 1.7 hrs | 1.31 | 54 min | 0.81 |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | - | 2.1 hrs | - |
| Village of Milan - (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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 50,780 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie County, OH annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/ohio/erie-county