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2023 Franklin County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Franklin County, OH went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (Ohio average 6.8 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1324th 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 Franklin 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 24, 2023 04:45 | March 31, 2023 09:15 | 7d 4h | 23,839 | 205K |
| 2 | July 22, 2023 10:45 | August 1, 2023 06:30 | 9d 19h | 16,874 | 268K |
| 3 | July 20, 2023 11:30 | July 22, 2023 08:00 | 1d 20h | 14,682 | 112K |
| 4 | March 3, 2023 12:30 | March 6, 2023 05:30 | 2d 17h | 14,037 | 118K |
| 5 | February 27, 2023 10:30 | March 3, 2023 07:45 | 3d 21h | 11,192 | 37K |
| 6 | March 23, 2023 08:30 | March 24, 2023 04:00 | 19h 30m | 9,956 | 15K |
| 7 | August 21, 2023 04:00 | August 28, 2023 05:00 | 7d 1h | 9,466 | 166K |
| 8 | June 15, 2023 05:45 | June 24, 2023 06:00 | 9d | 9,353 | 101K |
| 9 | December 18, 2023 12:15 | December 21, 2023 03:15 | 2d 15h | 8,442 | 25K |
| 10 | January 19, 2023 12:00 | January 23, 2023 07:15 | 3d 19h | 8,004 | 41K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 210 reached 100+ customers, 100 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Franklin 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 |
| Ohio Edison Co | 2023 | 9.6 hrs | 1.48 | 1.8 hrs | 0.97 |
| 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 |
| Licking Rural Electric Inc | 2023 | 6.3 hrs | 1.90 | 1.8 hrs | 0.99 |
| Consolidated Cooperative | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 2.20 | 1.7 hrs | 1.08 |
| Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 3.3 hrs | 2.20 | 70 min | 1.30 |
| City of Westerville - (OH) | 2023 | 45 min | 0.52 | 17 min | 0.21 |
| City of Columbus - (OH) | 2023 | 5.4 hrs | 1.31 | 5.4 hrs | 1.31 |
| Village of Obetz - (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 ÷ 362,081 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county