Power outage history
Allen County Ohio
6.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
30th most of 88 in Ohio close to the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Allen's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 19 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Allen, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2025 | No storm report | 1,514 | 5% | 13.1 d | – | 475k |
| Jul 10, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 5,270 | 16% | 30 h | 26 h | 105k |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,758 | 12% | 23 h | 21 h | 51k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 3,091 | 10% | 24 h | 20 h | 46k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Tornadoes | 4,144 | 13% | 19 h | 17 h | 37k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,829 | 15% | 22 h | 17 h | 35k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 4,303 | 13% | 15 h | 10 h | 27k |
| May 27, 2019 | No storm report | 3,774 | 12% | 7.0 h | 9.2 h | 26k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,769 | 12% | 16 h | 14 h | 20k |
| Apr 21, 2019 | No storm report | 1,301 | 4% | 18 h | – | 19k |
| May 21, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,443 | 8% | 10 h | 8.5 h | 18k |
| Jul 29, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,512 | 8% | 11 h | 8.8 h | 17k |
| Sep 11, 2015 | No storm report | 1,570 | 5% | 13 h | – | 16k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,557 | 5% | 15 h | – | 15k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | Windstorm | 3,228 | 10% | 7.8 h | 5.5 h | 15k |
| Sep 28, 2021 | No storm report | 3,377 | 11% | 5.2 h | 4.0 h | 14k |
| Sep 2, 2017 | Hurricane Harvey | 1,945 | 6% | 12 h | 12 h | 13k |
| May 29, 2022 | No storm report | 5,254 | 16% | 5.5 h | 5.5 h | 12k |
| Sep 15, 2020 | No storm report | 15,260 | 48% | 48 min | 48 min | 11k |
| Apr 24, 2020 | No storm report | 3,135 | 10% | 4.8 h | 30 min | 11k |
| Nov 23, 2016 | No storm report | 2,214 | 7% | 7.0 h | 4.0 h | 11k |
| Mar 10, 2024 | No storm report | 2,093 | 7% | 9.8 h | 9.8 h | 10k |
| Jan 19, 2023 | No storm report | 3,221 | 10% | 4.0 h | 3.0 h | 10k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Windstorm | 2,986 | 9% | 6.2 h | 4.5 h | 10k |
| Mar 30, 2019 | No storm report | 4,235 | 13% | 3.8 h | 2.2 h | 9.4k |
| May 10, 2021 | No storm report | 1,980 | 6% | 4.5 h | 3.0 h | 8.9k |
| Jan 3, 2017 | No storm report | 1,570 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 8.6k |
| Feb 19, 2016 | No storm report | 3,219 | 10% | 5.0 h | 3.8 h | 8.3k |
| Apr 30, 2025 | No storm report | 1,815 | 6% | 4.8 h | 3.0 h | 8.0k |
| Oct 14, 2023 | No storm report | 2,290 | 7% | 3.5 h | 2.5 h | 7.9k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Allen from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 72%
- Thunderstorms 19%
- Windstorm 5.2%
- Tornadoes 2.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Allen
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Ohio territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Power Co | Investor Owned | 221 | 145 | 1.22 | 19.0 | 1.3M |
| Mid-Ohio Energy Coop, Inc | OH | 71 | 71 | – | 13.3 | 112k |
| Hancock-Wood Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 62 | 43 | 1.34 | 17.3 | 11k |
| Midwest Electric, Inc | Cooperative | 255 | 91 | 1.88 | 15.8 | 11k |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 17.8 | 9.2k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 32,124 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →