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2023 Erie County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Erie County, OH went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 249K customer-hours (Ohio average 6.8 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1495th 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 Erie 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 | August 23, 2023 20:30 | August 29, 2023 03:15 | 5d 6h | 6,135 | 98K |
| 2 | August 12, 2023 12:45 | August 15, 2023 00:15 | 2d 11h | 5,130 | 60K |
| 3 | December 28, 2023 01:45 | December 28, 2023 02:00 | 15m | 3,685 | 921 |
| 4 | July 26, 2023 18:30 | July 30, 2023 00:00 | 3d 5h | 2,304 | 23K |
| 5 | October 13, 2023 19:30 | October 14, 2023 02:00 | 6h 30m | 2,286 | 597 |
| 6 | June 15, 2023 23:45 | June 19, 2023 15:45 | 3d 16h | 1,574 | 17K |
| 7 | April 1, 2023 04:30 | April 4, 2023 01:45 | 2d 21h | 1,236 | 9,261 |
| 8 | January 9, 2023 03:45 | January 9, 2023 09:00 | 5h 15m | 1,185 | 2,368 |
| 9 | June 11, 2023 13:45 | June 12, 2023 03:00 | 13h 15m | 1,148 | 1,116 |
| 10 | July 6, 2023 22:45 | July 7, 2023 04:15 | 5h 30m | 1,041 | 1,706 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 52 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Erie 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 Edison Co | 2023 | 9.6 hrs | 1.48 | 1.8 hrs | 0.97 |
| Hancock-Wood Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 70 min | 0.85 | 57 min | 0.81 |
| Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | - | 2.2 hrs | - |
| Village of Milan - (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 ÷ 50,780 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. Erie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Erie 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/erie-county