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2022 Athens County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Athens County, OH went without power for an average of 12.5 hours, a total of 560K customer-hours (Ohio average 7.2 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 88 Ohio counties and 545th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with OH, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Ohio customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Athens County, 2022
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 16, 2022 09:30 | May 17, 2022 06:30 | 21h | 10,663 | 65K |
| 2 | July 23, 2022 15:45 | July 25, 2022 18:00 | 2d 2h | 4,913 | 38K |
| 3 | June 8, 2022 21:00 | June 10, 2022 23:45 | 2d 2h | 3,940 | 63K |
| 4 | February 3, 2022 20:45 | February 6, 2022 22:45 | 3d 2h | 3,482 | 63K |
| 5 | July 21, 2022 05:00 | July 21, 2022 21:15 | 16h 15m | 3,154 | 34K |
| 6 | June 22, 2022 22:00 | June 24, 2022 01:15 | 1d 3h | 2,953 | 41K |
| 7 | January 19, 2022 13:30 | January 19, 2022 16:00 | 2h 30m | 2,554 | 2,846 |
| 8 | August 1, 2022 15:30 | August 1, 2022 17:30 | 2h | 2,415 | 1,815 |
| 9 | June 13, 2022 14:15 | June 17, 2022 14:00 | 3d 23h | 2,327 | 65K |
| 10 | May 12, 2022 12:00 | May 12, 2022 22:00 | 10h | 1,979 | 1,777 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 90 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Athens County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 9.9 hrs | 1.74 | 3.0 hrs | 1.19 |
| Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc | 2022 | 29.9 hrs | 4.20 | 12.2 hrs | 3.31 |
| Washington Electric Coop - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Glouster - (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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 44,829 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. Athens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Athens County, OH annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/ohio/athens-county