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2021 Richland County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Richland County, OH went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 243K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.2 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1901st 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 Richland 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 | December 9, 2021 15:00 | December 9, 2021 23:30 | 8h 30m | 8,655 | 6,271 |
| 2 | January 21, 2021 11:45 | January 22, 2021 01:45 | 14h | 5,601 | 19K |
| 3 | March 26, 2021 07:15 | March 28, 2021 02:30 | 1d 19h | 5,359 | 29K |
| 4 | April 29, 2021 13:30 | April 30, 2021 01:30 | 12h | 4,150 | 15K |
| 5 | January 15, 2021 18:00 | January 15, 2021 18:45 | 45m | 4,025 | 3,019 |
| 6 | August 11, 2021 12:30 | August 13, 2021 20:45 | 2d 8h | 3,587 | 31K |
| 7 | December 11, 2021 02:15 | December 14, 2021 00:45 | 2d 22h | 3,022 | 24K |
| 8 | January 12, 2021 15:15 | January 12, 2021 21:00 | 5h 45m | 2,891 | 3,634 |
| 9 | August 19, 2021 19:15 | August 19, 2021 21:45 | 2h 30m | 2,843 | 1,549 |
| 10 | December 6, 2021 16:30 | December 7, 2021 01:30 | 9h | 2,419 | 1,584 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 91 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Richland 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 |
| North Central Elec Coop, Inc - (OH) | 2021 | 42 min | - | 34 min | - |
| Firelands Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| City of Galion | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelby - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Lucas - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Plymouth - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Shiloh - (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 ÷ 84,801 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county