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2023 Mercer County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Mercer County, OH went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 66K customer-hours (Ohio average 6.8 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1791st 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 Mercer 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 04:15 | April 3, 2023 20:15 | 2d 16h | 3,875 | 39K |
| 2 | March 23, 2023 00:30 | March 23, 2023 01:45 | 1h 15m | 2,129 | 2,457 |
| 3 | July 29, 2023 07:45 | July 29, 2023 19:00 | 11h 15m | 2,052 | 7,202 |
| 4 | August 17, 2023 18:00 | August 17, 2023 19:00 | 1h | 1,605 | 803 |
| 5 | April 28, 2023 00:15 | April 28, 2023 11:45 | 11h 30m | 1,528 | 435 |
| 6 | March 1, 2023 07:30 | March 1, 2023 20:30 | 13h | 1,054 | 3,265 |
| 7 | September 12, 2023 20:30 | September 13, 2023 01:00 | 4h 30m | 1,007 | 866 |
| 8 | March 14, 2023 19:00 | March 14, 2023 21:15 | 2h 15m | 461 | 645 |
| 9 | November 27, 2023 06:00 | November 27, 2023 10:15 | 4h 15m | 398 | 1,692 |
| 10 | March 3, 2023 22:15 | March 4, 2023 07:45 | 9h 30m | 376 | 3,564 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 20 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Mercer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dayton Power & Light Co | 2023 | 2.8 hrs | 0.99 | 1.6 hrs | 0.74 |
| Pioneer Rural Elec Coop, Inc - (OH) | 2023 | 2.8 hrs | 1.77 | 1.6 hrs | 1.30 |
| Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) | 2023 | 5.5 hrs | 1.67 | 71 min | 0.94 |
| Darke Rural Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Celina - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mendon - (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 ÷ 18,878 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county