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2023 Ross County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ross County, OH went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 615K customer-hours (Ohio average 6.8 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 736th 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 Ross 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 3, 2023 21:00 | March 7, 2023 02:15 | 3d 5h | 12,759 | 388K |
| 2 | February 27, 2023 21:30 | February 28, 2023 08:15 | 10h 45m | 3,958 | 6,874 |
| 3 | March 25, 2023 15:00 | March 28, 2023 04:00 | 2d 13h | 3,321 | 31K |
| 4 | April 5, 2023 19:00 | April 6, 2023 22:00 | 1d 3h | 2,587 | 20K |
| 5 | February 9, 2023 11:45 | February 10, 2023 22:30 | 1d 10h | 2,550 | 12K |
| 6 | April 1, 2023 03:45 | April 2, 2023 18:15 | 1d 14h | 2,547 | 17K |
| 7 | July 17, 2023 17:30 | July 17, 2023 23:00 | 5h 30m | 2,317 | 7,367 |
| 8 | March 7, 2023 12:30 | March 8, 2023 01:45 | 13h 15m | 1,932 | 2,938 |
| 9 | July 18, 2023 00:15 | July 19, 2023 02:15 | 1d 2h | 1,637 | 4,562 |
| 10 | January 16, 2023 21:45 | January 17, 2023 05:15 | 7h 30m | 1,529 | 3,288 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 109 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Ross 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 |
| Dayton Power & Light Co | 2023 | 2.8 hrs | 0.99 | 1.6 hrs | 0.74 |
| 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 |
| Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 28.5 hrs | 3.36 | 28.5 hrs | 3.35 |
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 ÷ 52,738 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. Ross County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ross 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/ross-county