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2023 Portage County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Portage County, OH went without power for an average of 17.2 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (Ohio average 6.8 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 496th 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 Portage 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 25, 2023 04:15 | August 30, 2023 14:45 | 5d 10h | 31,116 | 849K |
| 2 | March 25, 2023 17:30 | March 31, 2023 09:00 | 5d 15h | 19,885 | 360K |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 03:45 | April 6, 2023 11:45 | 5d 8h | 13,384 | 219K |
| 4 | January 20, 2023 00:45 | January 20, 2023 18:15 | 17h 30m | 4,319 | 8,084 |
| 5 | April 13, 2023 13:45 | April 13, 2023 22:45 | 9h | 3,617 | 4,744 |
| 6 | September 28, 2023 16:30 | September 29, 2023 03:30 | 11h | 3,535 | 7,414 |
| 7 | August 12, 2023 01:00 | August 15, 2023 02:30 | 3d 1h | 2,766 | 13K |
| 8 | July 12, 2023 17:00 | July 13, 2023 14:45 | 21h 45m | 2,755 | 3,796 |
| 9 | May 11, 2023 20:00 | May 12, 2023 08:45 | 12h 45m | 2,380 | 6,016 |
| 10 | March 3, 2023 20:30 | March 5, 2023 01:15 | 1d 4h | 2,070 | 4,320 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 98 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Portage 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 |
| Cleveland Electric Illum Co | 2023 | 9.3 hrs | 1.24 | 2.0 hrs | 0.82 |
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 ÷ 92,468 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. Portage County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Portage 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/portage-county