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2025 Franklin County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Franklin County, OH went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 1.8M customer-hours (Ohio average 4.0 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 1483rd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with OH, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Ohio customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Franklin County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 25, 2025 09:00 | July 18, 2025 05:15 | 22d 20h | 24,330 | 269K |
| 2 | January 21, 2025 11:30 | January 23, 2025 06:45 | 1d 19h | 17,281 | 60K |
| 3 | March 29, 2025 01:30 | April 2, 2025 05:30 | 4d 4h | 15,797 | 114K |
| 4 | August 12, 2025 10:30 | August 18, 2025 08:15 | 5d 21h | 13,948 | 45K |
| 5 | June 16, 2025 08:15 | June 25, 2025 06:30 | 8d 22h | 13,378 | 176K |
| 6 | April 28, 2025 07:30 | May 1, 2025 06:15 | 2d 22h | 9,336 | 64K |
| 7 | July 23, 2025 11:45 | August 2, 2025 07:15 | 9d 19h | 7,943 | 101K |
| 8 | August 2, 2025 10:45 | August 5, 2025 05:45 | 2d 19h | 7,834 | 48K |
| 9 | May 14, 2025 10:00 | May 18, 2025 23:30 | 4d 13h | 5,736 | 62K |
| 10 | January 29, 2025 12:30 | February 1, 2025 12:45 | 3d | 5,412 | 9,608 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 186 reached 100+ customers, 104 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/ohio/franklin-county