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2021 Franklin County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Franklin County, OH went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (Ohio average 4.2 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1403rd 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 Franklin 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 | July 21, 2021 05:45 | July 22, 2021 23:15 | 1d 17h | 39,796 | 40K |
| 2 | November 14, 2021 10:45 | November 16, 2021 03:00 | 1d 16h | 11,366 | 26K |
| 3 | April 27, 2021 10:00 | April 29, 2021 03:00 | 1d 17h | 9,688 | 35K |
| 4 | June 18, 2021 11:00 | June 20, 2021 06:00 | 1d 19h | 7,331 | 22K |
| 5 | July 29, 2021 11:00 | July 31, 2021 03:45 | 1d 16h | 7,004 | 25K |
| 6 | September 14, 2021 09:30 | September 19, 2021 19:30 | 5d 10h | 6,854 | 57K |
| 7 | June 28, 2021 03:45 | July 3, 2021 06:00 | 5d 2h | 6,613 | 73K |
| 8 | August 11, 2021 08:00 | August 16, 2021 02:15 | 4d 18h | 6,444 | 49K |
| 9 | December 9, 2021 02:45 | December 15, 2021 07:15 | 6d 4h | 5,822 | 61K |
| 10 | May 2, 2021 10:45 | May 4, 2021 05:45 | 1d 19h | 5,755 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 177 reached 100+ customers, 107 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Franklin 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 Power Co | 2021 | 3.9 hrs | 1.36 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| Ohio Edison Co | 2021 | 2.7 hrs | 1.40 | 1.9 hrs | 1.23 |
| South Central Power Company | 2021 | 4.7 hrs | 2.07 | 4.1 hrs | 1.96 |
| Duke Energy Ohio Inc | 2021 | 2.4 hrs | 1.02 | 2.1 hrs | 0.95 |
| Licking Rural Electric Inc | 2021 | 3.6 hrs | 2.06 | 2.0 hrs | 1.52 |
| Consolidated Cooperative | 2021 | 2.4 hrs | 1.66 | 1.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.9 hrs | 1.78 | 48 min | 0.93 |
| City of Westerville - (OH) | 2021 | 49 min | 0.64 | 33 min | 0.57 |
| City of Columbus - (OH) | 2021 | 2.9 hrs | 1.77 | 2.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| Village of Obetz - (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 ÷ 362,081 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county