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

Power outage history

Gallia County Ohio

8.0hours

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

20th most of 88 in Ohio 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 16, 2021 19% of customers out · 90% back in 18 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.0h / yr State average 5.5 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 9hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 6.9days Feb 15, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 60% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 13 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 18,457 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 Gallia'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

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Gallia, hours without power per customer

GalliaUS median countyOhio average
0 5 10 15 20 6.3 ’15 4.2 ’16 3.4 ’17 4.1 ’18 3.7 ’19 4.4 ’20 13 ’21 7.4 ’22 12 ’23 13 ’24 5.6 ’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
Feb 15, 2021 Winter storm 3,569 19% 6.9 d 18 h 164k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 3,282 18% 4.3 d 3.2 d 159k
Mar 25, 2023 Windstorm 8,837 48% 2.2 d 22 h 109k
Jun 13, 2022 No storm report 1,813 10% 47 h 30 h 50k
Jul 14, 2015 Thunderstorms 2,383 13% 23 h 18 h 49k
Apr 20, 2015 No storm report 2,721 15% 11 h 17 h 18k
Apr 14, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,722 9% 24 h 19 h 17k
Jun 24, 2016 Thunderstorms 2,092 11% 13 h 2.8 h 14k
Feb 11, 2021 Winter storm 702 4% 20 h – 10k
Apr 2, 2024 Thunderstorms 721 4% 28 h – 10k
Feb 24, 2019 Windstorm 1,099 6% 28 h 27 h 9.8k
Apr 14, 2023 No storm report 1,436 8% 6.8 h 1.5 h 9.7k

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 +4h 90% by +20h

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 Gallia from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 40%
  • Winter storm 19%
  • Tropical storm 17%
  • Windstorm 17%
  • Thunderstorms 6.9%
  • Flooding 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Gallia

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
Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 995 995 3.19 20.5 16k

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+

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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 18,457 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 →