Power outage history
Champaign County Ohio
4.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
53rd most of 88 in Ohio 32% below 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 Champaign's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 10 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Champaign, 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 14, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 5,129 | 34% | 2.0 d | 43 h | 87k |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Windstorm | 1,317 | 9% | 37 h | 35 h | 24k |
| May 28, 2019 | No storm report | 1,332 | 9% | 19 h | 13 h | 24k |
| Jun 14, 2024 | No storm report | 1,524 | 10% | 27 h | 22 h | 18k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 2,152 | 14% | 28 h | 2.0 h | 17k |
| Dec 30, 2019 | Windstorm | 2,824 | 19% | 9.5 h | 7.8 h | 11k |
| May 11, 2018 | No storm report | 1,312 | 9% | 9.0 h | 19 h | 9.9k |
| May 20, 2022 | No storm report | 1,552 | 10% | 6.2 h | 3.5 h | 8.5k |
| Sep 5, 2016 | No storm report | 1,302 | 9% | 12 h | 12 h | 6.9k |
| Jun 21, 2020 | No storm report | 3,093 | 21% | 6.5 h | 1.5 h | 6.6k |
| Aug 24, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,643 | 11% | 6.0 h | 5.0 h | 6.4k |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,684 | 18% | 9.8 h | 5.2 h | 5.8k |
| Sep 4, 2019 | No storm report | 3,106 | 21% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 5.4k |
| Jul 18, 2023 | No storm report | 290 | 2% | 18 h | – | 5.1k |
| Apr 2, 2016 | No storm report | 851 | 6% | 9.2 h | 13 h | 4.9k |
| Feb 9, 2023 | No storm report | 628 | 4% | 13 h | – | 4.9k |
| Feb 26, 2025 | No storm report | 1,083 | 7% | 5.0 h | 5.0 h | 4.8k |
| Sep 28, 2024 | No storm report | 497 | 3% | 10 h | – | 4.4k |
| Feb 18, 2022 | No storm report | 1,867 | 12% | 4.0 h | 2.2 h | 4.4k |
| Jan 9, 2025 | No storm report | 1,658 | 11% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 4.4k |
| Feb 22, 2022 | No storm report | 887 | 6% | 4.2 h | 1.5 h | 3.7k |
| Feb 25, 2022 | No storm report | 650 | 4% | 12 h | – | 3.6k |
| Jun 1, 2018 | No storm report | 621 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 3.6k |
| Jul 19, 2025 | No storm report | 732 | 5% | 6.2 h | – | 3.2k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | No storm report | 1,100 | 7% | 3.0 h | 1.0 h | 3.2k |
| Sep 23, 2021 | No storm report | 525 | 4% | 13 h | – | 3.2k |
| Apr 23, 2022 | No storm report | 1,342 | 9% | 3.8 h | 48 min | 3.1k |
| Aug 1, 2024 | No storm report | 576 | 4% | 5.5 h | – | 3.0k |
| Sep 8, 2018 | No storm report | 1,512 | 10% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 3.0k |
| Apr 24, 2018 | No storm report | 461 | 3% | 6.2 h | – | 2.9k |
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 Champaign from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 61%
- Thunderstorms 26%
- Windstorm 8.5%
- Tropical storm 4.0%
- Winter storm 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Champaign
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 Edison Co | Investor Owned | 244 | 131 | 1.51 | 16.0 | 961k |
| Dayton Power & Light Co | Investor Owned | 168 | 97 | 0.99 | 16.1 | 469k |
| Pioneer Rural Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 129 | 129 | 1.50 | 16.4 | 16k |
| Union Rural Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 184 | 62 | 2.12 | 16.8 | 12k |
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 14,989 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 →