Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Hocking County Ohio

23hours

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

2nd most of 88 in Ohio 3.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 4, 2022 76% of customers out · 90% back in 5.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 23h / yr State average 5.5 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 6hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 7.2days Feb 3, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 50% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 2.8 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 17,905 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 Hocking's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Hocking, hours without power per customer

HockingUS median countyOhio average
0 20 40 60 80 4.5 ’15 12 ’16 15 ’17 19 ’18 21 ’19 14 ’20 8.7 ’21 67 ’22 26 ’23 13 ’24 13 ’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 3, 2022 Ice storm 13,677 76% 7.2 d 5.1 d 863k
Mar 25, 2023 No storm report 9,293 52% 2.2 d 30 h 166k
Mar 3, 2023 No storm report 4,189 23% 2.1 d 41 h 123k
Feb 7, 2018 Winter storm 7,141 40% 39 h 30 h 103k
Feb 24, 2019 No storm report 4,351 24% 2.3 d 28 h 83k
Jul 10, 2017 Flooding 3,058 17% 2.4 d 45 h 66k
May 3, 2022 Thunderstorms 7,930 44% 22 h 18 h 64k
Aug 25, 2020 Thunderstorms 9,069 51% 32 h 6.2 h 55k
Sep 27, 2024 No storm report 3,179 18% 46 h 25 h 48k
Apr 6, 2016 No storm report 3,327 19% 20 h 24 h 48k
May 16, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,140 12% 22 h 13 h 32k
Jul 14, 2024 No storm report 4,467 25% 19 h 11 h 31k

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 +14h 90% by +26h

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

  • No storm on record 50%
  • Ice storm 30%
  • Thunderstorms 9.4%
  • Winter storm 5.2%
  • Flooding 2.5%
  • Tornadoes 1.7%
  • Windstorm 0.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Hocking

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
South Central Power Company Cooperative 298 198 2.83 15.4 118k

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 17,905 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 →