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2024 Richland County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Richland County, OH went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 147K customer-hours (Ohio average 9.0 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 2490th 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 Richland 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 | May 2, 2024 10:15 | May 2, 2024 21:30 | 11h 15m | 4,080 | 2,263 |
| 2 | August 24, 2024 08:45 | August 24, 2024 09:30 | 45m | 1,868 | 1,401 |
| 3 | July 22, 2024 10:15 | July 22, 2024 17:15 | 7h | 1,722 | 2,600 |
| 4 | March 18, 2024 03:15 | March 18, 2024 14:30 | 11h 15m | 1,720 | 5,973 |
| 5 | April 11, 2024 06:15 | April 11, 2024 13:45 | 7h 30m | 1,715 | 1,625 |
| 6 | January 12, 2024 19:30 | January 15, 2024 17:00 | 2d 21h | 1,660 | 9,632 |
| 7 | February 28, 2024 11:30 | February 29, 2024 01:45 | 14h 15m | 1,452 | 1,763 |
| 8 | October 8, 2024 11:45 | October 10, 2024 04:15 | 1d 16h | 1,439 | 18K |
| 9 | November 14, 2024 17:15 | November 15, 2024 00:45 | 7h 30m | 1,317 | 1,431 |
| 10 | October 10, 2024 12:45 | October 10, 2024 22:45 | 10h | 1,221 | 5,800 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 88 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 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 |
| 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 |
| North Central Elec Coop, Inc - (OH) | 2024 | 65 min | - | 62 min | - |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/richland-county