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2024 Franklin County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Franklin County, OH went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (Ohio average 9.0 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1595th 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 Franklin 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 | September 27, 2024 08:00 | October 5, 2024 00:45 | 7d 16h | 17,287 | 222K |
| 2 | March 27, 2024 06:45 | March 28, 2024 03:00 | 20h 15m | 13,013 | 14K |
| 3 | August 1, 2024 10:15 | August 4, 2024 01:30 | 2d 15h | 10,842 | 79K |
| 4 | July 14, 2024 14:30 | July 19, 2024 05:00 | 4d 14h | 10,539 | 154K |
| 5 | June 8, 2024 09:45 | June 29, 2024 10:30 | 21d | 9,708 | 179K |
| 6 | December 18, 2024 09:00 | December 19, 2024 08:00 | 23h | 9,559 | 7,692 |
| 7 | December 29, 2024 09:30 | December 31, 2024 03:00 | 1d 17h | 8,520 | 43K |
| 8 | December 2, 2024 12:00 | December 8, 2024 23:15 | 6d 11h | 7,816 | 45K |
| 9 | January 12, 2024 13:00 | January 15, 2024 03:00 | 2d 14h | 5,936 | 37K |
| 10 | August 30, 2024 10:45 | September 1, 2024 17:30 | 2d 6h | 5,493 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 180 reached 100+ customers, 98 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Franklin 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 |
| Ohio Edison Co | 2024 | 3.9 hrs | 1.28 | 1.9 hrs | 1.03 |
| South Central Power Company | 2024 | 5.3 hrs | 2.52 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 |
| Duke Energy Ohio Inc | 2024 | 5.4 hrs | 1.04 | 1.7 hrs | 0.80 |
| Licking Rural Electric Inc | 2024 | 4.0 hrs | 1.64 | 1.9 hrs | 1.04 |
| Consolidated Cooperative | 2024 | 5.9 hrs | 1.23 | 87 min | 0.93 |
| Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 4.3 hrs | 2.11 | 59 min | 0.48 |
| City of Westerville - (OH) | 2024 | 57 min | 0.85 | 21 min | 0.35 |
| City of Columbus - (OH) | 2024 | 4.1 hrs | 2.17 | 4.1 hrs | 2.17 |
| Village of Obetz - (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 ÷ 362,081 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county