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2023 Athens County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Athens County, OH went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 436K customer-hours (Ohio average 6.8 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 88 Ohio counties and 869th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with OH, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Ohio customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Athens County, 2023
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 25, 2023 08:15 | March 29, 2023 01:15 | 3d 17h | 10,133 | 211K |
| 2 | June 23, 2023 07:45 | June 24, 2023 01:00 | 17h 15m | 2,955 | 972 |
| 3 | July 25, 2023 02:45 | July 26, 2023 02:15 | 23h 30m | 2,789 | 30K |
| 4 | March 3, 2023 19:30 | March 6, 2023 20:30 | 3d 1h | 1,884 | 40K |
| 5 | August 7, 2023 05:00 | August 10, 2023 00:45 | 2d 19h | 1,544 | 18K |
| 6 | June 20, 2023 00:15 | June 22, 2023 04:30 | 2d 4h | 1,455 | 11K |
| 7 | August 30, 2023 17:45 | August 30, 2023 20:30 | 2h 45m | 1,408 | 2,818 |
| 8 | November 1, 2023 10:30 | November 1, 2023 11:30 | 1h | 1,407 | 1,407 |
| 9 | January 19, 2023 23:15 | January 20, 2023 21:45 | 22h 30m | 1,395 | 13K |
| 10 | March 7, 2023 13:30 | March 7, 2023 23:15 | 9h 45m | 1,178 | 1,370 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 82 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 5.4 hrs | 1.24 | 2.5 hrs | 0.96 |
| Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 28.5 hrs | 3.36 | 28.5 hrs | 3.35 |
| 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 n/a of Ohio's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/ohio/athens-county