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2023 Van Wert County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Van Wert County, OH went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Ohio average 6.8 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1438th 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 Van Wert 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 | October 30, 2023 11:00 | October 30, 2023 16:15 | 5h 15m | 2,835 | 7,137 |
| 2 | April 27, 2023 10:30 | April 27, 2023 11:30 | 1h | 1,336 | 669 |
| 3 | March 30, 2023 09:45 | March 30, 2023 10:30 | 45m | 1,334 | 1,001 |
| 4 | September 1, 2023 12:00 | September 1, 2023 17:15 | 5h 15m | 968 | 1,474 |
| 5 | February 16, 2023 17:00 | February 16, 2023 17:45 | 45m | 835 | 626 |
| 6 | December 13, 2023 13:15 | December 13, 2023 20:15 | 7h | 739 | 3,578 |
| 7 | March 25, 2023 16:15 | March 26, 2023 04:45 | 12h 30m | 708 | 2,898 |
| 8 | January 12, 2023 23:45 | January 13, 2023 02:45 | 3h | 555 | 1,665 |
| 9 | February 27, 2023 20:15 | February 28, 2023 23:30 | 1d 3h | 402 | 1,617 |
| 10 | February 19, 2023 05:00 | February 20, 2023 00:15 | 19h 15m | 286 | 3,194 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 24 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Van Wert 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 |
| Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH) | 2023 | 5.5 hrs | 1.67 | 71 min | 0.94 |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Ohio City - (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 ÷ 8,328 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. Van Wert County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Van Wert 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/van-wert-county