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2023 Richland County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Richland County, OH went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 246K customer-hours (Ohio average 6.8 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1992nd 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 Richland 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 04:45 | April 6, 2023 19:30 | 5d 14h | 4,935 | 84K |
| 2 | January 25, 2023 16:00 | January 25, 2023 18:30 | 2h 30m | 4,357 | 2,219 |
| 3 | February 11, 2023 15:00 | February 11, 2023 16:30 | 1h 30m | 4,340 | 3,255 |
| 4 | March 25, 2023 17:00 | March 29, 2023 08:30 | 3d 15h | 3,095 | 39K |
| 5 | July 28, 2023 14:15 | August 1, 2023 00:45 | 3d 10h | 3,063 | 45K |
| 6 | December 6, 2023 21:15 | December 7, 2023 02:15 | 5h | 2,266 | 586 |
| 7 | December 22, 2023 22:00 | December 23, 2023 02:00 | 4h | 1,723 | 877 |
| 8 | January 19, 2023 22:45 | January 20, 2023 18:00 | 19h 15m | 1,261 | 3,810 |
| 9 | July 26, 2023 20:30 | July 27, 2023 08:00 | 11h 30m | 1,090 | 384 |
| 10 | January 29, 2023 22:30 | January 30, 2023 05:00 | 6h 30m | 1,029 | 4,527 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 69 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Richland 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 |
| 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 |
| North Central Elec Coop, Inc - (OH) | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | - | 1.8 hrs | - |
| Firelands Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| City of Galion | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelby - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Lucas - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Plymouth - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Shiloh - (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 ÷ 84,801 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland 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/richland-county