Power Out Map
– 0% of Erie out 0 customers out in Ohio

Power outage history

Erie County Ohio

3.3hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

69th most of 88 in Ohio 50% below the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 10, 2020 40% of customers out · 90% back in 22 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.3h / yr State average 5.5 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 45hours Jun 10, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 66% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 6.3 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 50,780 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Erie's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.3 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Erie, hours without power per customer

ErieUS median countyOhio average
0 2 4 6 8 1.8 ’15 2.2 ’16 2.6 ’17 2.2 ’18 2.9 ’19 6.3 ’20 1.8 ’21 3.9 ’22 4.9 ’23 2.3 ’24 1.8 ’25 US 6.6 OH 5.5

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 10, 2020 Thunderstorms 20,151 40% 45 h 22 h 233k
Dec 23, 2022 Winter storm 9,290 18% 26 h 8.2 h 79k
Aug 12, 2023 Thunderstorms 5,130 10% 25 h 22 h 57k
Aug 23, 2023 Flooding 2,774 5% 24 h 32 h 43k
Aug 25, 2023 Tornadoes 6,135 12% 21 h 17 h 41k
Dec 30, 2019 Windstorm 12,168 24% 12 h 4.8 h 36k
Aug 6, 2024 Thunderstorms 11,505 23% 13 h 9.2 h 33k
Mar 1, 2018 No storm report 3,045 6% 16 h 16 h 20k
Feb 3, 2019 No storm report 947 2% 20 h – 19k
Aug 28, 2016 Thunderstorms 6,981 14% 5.5 h 4.2 h 18k
Nov 15, 2020 No storm report 2,910 6% 9.5 h 19 h 16k
Aug 9, 2015 No storm report 5,207 10% 3.0 h 1.0 h 15k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +16h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Erie from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Thunderstorms 41%
  • No storm on record 34%
  • Winter storm 8.8%
  • Windstorm 6.2%
  • Flooding 5.0%
  • Tornadoes 4.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Erie

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
Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc Cooperative 215 173 – 17.5 15k
Hancock-Wood Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 62 43 1.34 17.3 11k
Village of Milan OH – – – – 5.7k

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

Across Ohio

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Ohio counties →

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 50,780 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 →