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2021 Knox County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Knox County, OH went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 128K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.2 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1808th 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 Knox 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 | April 29, 2021 11:15 | April 30, 2021 10:00 | 22h 45m | 3,531 | 15K |
| 2 | March 26, 2021 08:30 | March 27, 2021 21:30 | 1d 13h | 2,356 | 12K |
| 3 | April 7, 2021 07:00 | April 7, 2021 10:15 | 3h 15m | 2,354 | 1,187 |
| 4 | March 18, 2021 18:00 | March 19, 2021 05:45 | 11h 45m | 2,087 | 4,703 |
| 5 | May 23, 2021 03:00 | May 23, 2021 09:00 | 6h | 1,928 | 11K |
| 6 | October 24, 2021 21:45 | October 25, 2021 01:45 | 4h | 1,562 | 2,754 |
| 7 | August 9, 2021 12:15 | August 10, 2021 19:30 | 1d 7h | 1,543 | 3,447 |
| 8 | June 29, 2021 19:15 | June 30, 2021 14:00 | 18h 45m | 1,298 | 6,053 |
| 9 | April 9, 2021 02:45 | April 9, 2021 04:00 | 1h 15m | 1,286 | 1,608 |
| 10 | May 4, 2021 16:45 | May 5, 2021 00:15 | 7h 30m | 1,168 | 2,945 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 54 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Knox 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 |
| 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 |
| Frontier Power Company | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.43 | 2.2 hrs | 1.43 |
| Holmes-Wayne Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 6.6 hrs | 2.37 | 3.7 hrs | 1.87 |
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 ÷ 41,371 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. Knox County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knox 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/knox-county