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2023 Defiance County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Defiance County, OH went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Ohio average 6.8 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1692nd 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 Defiance 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 | April 1, 2023 04:45 | April 3, 2023 11:00 | 2d 6h | 2,011 | 25K |
| 2 | June 11, 2023 21:30 | June 12, 2023 02:30 | 5h | 1,101 | 3,699 |
| 3 | February 16, 2023 19:45 | February 17, 2023 01:30 | 5h 45m | 1,062 | 1,406 |
| 4 | June 25, 2023 07:30 | June 25, 2023 14:45 | 7h 15m | 848 | 1,956 |
| 5 | August 3, 2023 10:15 | August 3, 2023 12:45 | 2h 30m | 762 | 1,905 |
| 6 | April 4, 2023 17:30 | April 5, 2023 06:00 | 12h 30m | 408 | 1,125 |
| 7 | September 5, 2023 21:15 | September 6, 2023 03:00 | 5h 45m | 316 | 561 |
| 8 | June 1, 2023 16:45 | June 1, 2023 20:15 | 3h 30m | 312 | 165 |
| 9 | March 27, 2023 11:00 | March 27, 2023 21:30 | 10h 30m | 287 | 772 |
| 10 | April 3, 2023 13:15 | April 4, 2023 12:30 | 23h 15m | 233 | 4,844 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 14 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Defiance 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 |
| The Toledo Edison Co | 2023 | 5.5 hrs | 1.01 | 80 min | 0.67 |
| North Western Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 65 min | 0.81 | - | - |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,228 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. Defiance County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Defiance 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/defiance-county