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2024 Athens County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Athens County, OH went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 221K customer-hours (Ohio average 9.0 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1624th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with OH, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Ohio customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Athens County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 5, 2024 00:15 | December 5, 2024 22:15 | 22h | 4,154 | 16K |
| 2 | June 27, 2024 12:15 | June 28, 2024 02:00 | 13h 45m | 2,758 | 8,301 |
| 3 | March 15, 2024 04:15 | March 16, 2024 02:00 | 21h 45m | 2,223 | 27K |
| 4 | September 27, 2024 15:45 | October 2, 2024 20:15 | 5d 4h | 1,981 | 45K |
| 5 | March 27, 2024 04:00 | March 27, 2024 12:45 | 8h 45m | 1,965 | 3,748 |
| 6 | May 27, 2024 08:00 | May 28, 2024 01:30 | 17h 30m | 1,875 | 11K |
| 7 | January 9, 2024 14:30 | January 11, 2024 10:45 | 1d 20h | 1,845 | 11K |
| 8 | June 2, 2024 08:00 | June 2, 2024 13:30 | 5h 30m | 1,398 | 5,943 |
| 9 | July 8, 2024 06:30 | July 8, 2024 12:45 | 6h 15m | 1,303 | 5,233 |
| 10 | February 28, 2024 11:15 | February 29, 2024 00:15 | 13h | 1,283 | 3,311 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 64 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Athens County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 4.5 hrs | 1.13 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 |
| Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc | 2024 | 48.5 hrs | 4.17 | 19.3 hrs | 3.04 |
| Washington Electric Coop - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Glouster - (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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 44,829 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. Athens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Athens County, OH annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/ohio/athens-county