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2021 Lorain County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lorain County, OH went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 383K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.2 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1651st 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 Lorain 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 | March 18, 2021 12:45 | March 19, 2021 21:15 | 1d 8h | 16,219 | 19K |
| 2 | August 11, 2021 21:30 | August 16, 2021 02:00 | 4d 4h | 6,178 | 121K |
| 3 | March 26, 2021 08:00 | March 28, 2021 03:00 | 1d 19h | 5,137 | 13K |
| 4 | April 21, 2021 03:00 | April 23, 2021 01:00 | 1d 22h | 3,780 | 13K |
| 5 | December 11, 2021 06:00 | December 13, 2021 23:30 | 2d 17h | 3,641 | 18K |
| 6 | March 6, 2021 01:45 | March 7, 2021 05:15 | 1d 3h | 3,396 | 13K |
| 7 | February 25, 2021 00:00 | February 25, 2021 22:15 | 22h 15m | 3,042 | 6,435 |
| 8 | June 6, 2021 08:45 | June 7, 2021 04:15 | 19h 30m | 2,918 | 11K |
| 9 | February 4, 2021 12:45 | February 4, 2021 20:45 | 8h | 2,763 | 5,280 |
| 10 | May 28, 2021 12:15 | May 31, 2021 17:15 | 3d 5h | 2,593 | 22K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 121 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Lorain 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 |
| Cleveland Electric Illum Co | 2021 | 6.6 hrs | 1.56 | 2.3 hrs | 1.08 |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | - | 2.1 hrs | - |
| Firelands Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| City of Amherst- (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Oberlin - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Grafton - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Wellington - (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 ÷ 106,179 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. Lorain County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lorain 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/lorain-county