Power outage history
Columbiana County Ohio
8.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
18th most of 88 in Ohio 1.2× 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 Columbiana'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 18 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Columbiana, 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 | Thunderstorms | 4,749 | 8% | 12.9 d | 29 h | 954k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | Windstorm | 15,913 | 25% | 2.5 d | 44 h | 343k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Winter storm | 13,027 | 21% | 2.4 d | 31 h | 306k |
| Aug 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 15,671 | 25% | 2.5 d | 38 h | 292k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 10,375 | 16% | 38 h | 28 h | 149k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 8,423 | 13% | 42 h | 40 h | 112k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 5,922 | 9% | 48 h | 35 h | 103k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Tornadoes | 5,717 | 9% | 27 h | 26 h | 86k |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,158 | 5% | 43 h | – | 69k |
| Aug 12, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 3,155 | 5% | 27 h | – | 61k |
| Feb 16, 2016 | Winter storm | 6,591 | 10% | 21 h | 15 h | 56k |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 10,477 | 17% | 17 h | 8.2 h | 55k |
| Dec 29, 2024 | No storm report | 4,600 | 7% | 23 h | 23 h | 38k |
| Apr 12, 2015 | No storm report | 11,520 | 18% | 5.2 h | 5.0 h | 34k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,397 | 5% | 12 h | 22 h | 28k |
| Apr 14, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,927 | 8% | 8.8 h | 11 h | 23k |
| Mar 1, 2018 | No storm report | 3,919 | 6% | 14 h | 6.5 h | 22k |
| Sep 5, 2017 | No storm report | 14,020 | 22% | 4.8 h | 1.5 h | 20k |
| Oct 20, 2020 | No storm report | 6,840 | 11% | 4.0 h | 48 min | 17k |
| May 11, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,838 | 3% | 13 h | – | 17k |
| May 3, 2024 | No storm report | 3,053 | 5% | 6.5 h | – | 16k |
| Apr 15, 2018 | No storm report | 1,996 | 3% | 7.8 h | – | 15k |
| Jun 1, 2019 | No storm report | 3,496 | 6% | 6.2 h | 6.2 h | 14k |
| May 13, 2025 | No storm report | 3,203 | 5% | 5.0 h | 5.2 h | 14k |
| Sep 28, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,036 | 6% | 5.8 h | 5.5 h | 14k |
| Jul 24, 2024 | No storm report | 2,862 | 5% | 7.2 h | – | 13k |
| Nov 18, 2019 | No storm report | 2,888 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 13k |
| Mar 29, 2020 | No storm report | 3,401 | 5% | 7.2 h | 5.8 h | 13k |
| Mar 11, 2017 | No storm report | 1,992 | 3% | 6.2 h | – | 12k |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Windstorm | 3,384 | 5% | 6.2 h | 9.0 h | 12k |
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 Columbiana from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 55%
- No storm on record 19%
- Windstorm 14%
- Winter storm 9.8%
- Tornadoes 2.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Columbiana
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 |
| Ohio Edison Co | Investor Owned | 244 | 131 | 1.51 | 16.0 | 961k |
| Carroll Electric Coop, Inc | OH | 1,033 | 561 | – | 13.9 | 126k |
| City of Columbiana | OH | – | – | – | – | 25k |
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.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Hancock, WV 10 h
- Carroll 8.6 h
- Columbiana (this county) 8.2 h
- Jefferson 7.7 h
- Beaver, PA 6.5 h
- Lawrence, PA 4.7 h
- Mahoning 3.4 h
- Stark 3.1 h
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 63,181 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 →