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2023 Fairfield County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Fairfield County, OH went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 534K customer-hours (Ohio average 6.8 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1262nd 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 Fairfield 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 | July 24, 2023 22:15 | July 27, 2023 06:30 | 2d 8h | 10,584 | 96K |
| 2 | March 25, 2023 15:30 | March 28, 2023 01:45 | 2d 10h | 8,947 | 102K |
| 3 | April 5, 2023 11:00 | April 7, 2023 00:15 | 1d 13h | 6,499 | 77K |
| 4 | March 3, 2023 19:15 | March 6, 2023 04:30 | 2d 9h | 5,039 | 33K |
| 5 | February 9, 2023 12:45 | February 11, 2023 03:30 | 1d 14h | 3,820 | 15K |
| 6 | June 2, 2023 11:15 | June 3, 2023 03:00 | 15h 45m | 3,308 | 11K |
| 7 | November 1, 2023 23:30 | November 2, 2023 02:15 | 2h 45m | 3,081 | 7,428 |
| 8 | June 14, 2023 04:45 | June 15, 2023 02:30 | 21h 45m | 2,993 | 12K |
| 9 | June 11, 2023 16:45 | June 12, 2023 01:00 | 8h 15m | 2,877 | 4,636 |
| 10 | August 9, 2023 19:45 | August 9, 2023 20:45 | 1h | 2,299 | 576 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 123 reached 100+ customers, 28 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 Fairfield 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 |
| South Central Power Company | 2023 | 9.0 hrs | 2.31 | 4.3 hrs | 1.85 |
| Duke Energy Ohio Inc | 2023 | 2.8 hrs | 0.99 | 1.7 hrs | 0.83 |
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 ÷ 86,733 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. Fairfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fairfield 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/fairfield-county