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2021 Van Wert County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Van Wert County, OH went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.2 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1331st 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 Van Wert 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 10, 2021 10:00 | May 10, 2021 21:45 | 11h 45m | 2,840 | 10K |
| 2 | December 21, 2021 17:00 | December 21, 2021 22:30 | 5h 30m | 1,336 | 7,218 |
| 3 | June 30, 2021 18:00 | July 1, 2021 01:45 | 7h 45m | 931 | 961 |
| 4 | May 9, 2021 14:15 | May 10, 2021 03:00 | 12h 45m | 801 | 2,113 |
| 5 | April 9, 2021 20:30 | April 9, 2021 23:15 | 2h 45m | 687 | 1,715 |
| 6 | February 11, 2021 10:45 | February 11, 2021 11:30 | 45m | 548 | 373 |
| 7 | March 1, 2021 00:15 | March 1, 2021 04:00 | 3h 45m | 461 | 604 |
| 8 | July 16, 2021 19:00 | July 16, 2021 23:30 | 4h 30m | 366 | 924 |
| 9 | March 9, 2021 14:00 | March 10, 2021 02:45 | 12h 45m | 310 | 624 |
| 10 | November 7, 2021 23:15 | November 8, 2021 12:45 | 13h 30m | 245 | 2,711 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 19 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Van Wert 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 |
| Dayton Power & Light Co | 2021 | 3.0 hrs | 0.99 | 1.8 hrs | 0.81 |
| Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 1.19 | 81 min | 0.93 |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Ohio City - (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 ÷ 8,328 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. Van Wert County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Van Wert 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/van-wert-county