Power outage history
Jefferson County Ohio
7.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
24th 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 Jefferson'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 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Jefferson, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 19,227 | 43% | 2.3 d | 44 h | 548k |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Ice storm | 8,602 | 19% | 2.7 d | 41 h | 225k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | Windstorm | 4,702 | 10% | 2.0 d | 42 h | 108k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 3,463 | 8% | 2.3 d | 47 h | 98k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 8,230 | 18% | 24 h | 19 h | 63k |
| Jul 23, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,611 | 8% | 29 h | 9.5 h | 56k |
| Jun 24, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 7,145 | 16% | 26 h | 5.5 h | 48k |
| Jul 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,552 | 6% | 24 h | 21 h | 38k |
| Jul 2, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 5,057 | 11% | 15 h | 13 h | 37k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,109 | 7% | 24 h | 25 h | 36k |
| May 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 3,326 | 7% | 15 h | 13 h | 36k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | No storm report | 3,338 | 7% | 25 h | 26 h | 32k |
| Oct 31, 2019 | No storm report | 2,710 | 6% | 21 h | 20 h | 24k |
| Jul 11, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 3,693 | 8% | 22 h | 22 h | 24k |
| Jun 14, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,108 | 5% | 19 h | – | 23k |
| Jul 20, 2023 | No storm report | 5,103 | 11% | 4.5 h | 3.0 h | 21k |
| Aug 12, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 2,391 | 5% | 17 h | 15 h | 19k |
| Nov 16, 2018 | Winter storm | 2,208 | 5% | 24 h | – | 19k |
| Jun 21, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,977 | 4% | 19 h | – | 16k |
| Aug 25, 2023 | No storm report | 1,424 | 3% | 17 h | – | 16k |
| Sep 15, 2020 | No storm report | 19,341 | 43% | 48 min | 1.8 h | 15k |
| Jan 1, 2018 | No storm report | 3,981 | 9% | 3.5 h | 1.0 h | 14k |
| Jun 14, 2015 | No storm report | 1,904 | 4% | 7.0 h | – | 13k |
| Apr 23, 2019 | No storm report | 8,313 | 19% | 1.8 h | 30 min | 12k |
| Aug 13, 2024 | No storm report | 4,974 | 11% | 5.0 h | 5.8 h | 12k |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,025 | 2% | 15 h | – | 12k |
| Jul 5, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 2,247 | 5% | 11 h | 2.5 h | 12k |
| Sep 9, 2015 | No storm report | 1,910 | 4% | 6.0 h | – | 11k |
| Jun 6, 2015 | No storm report | 1,892 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 11k |
| Dec 11, 2019 | No storm report | 2,483 | 6% | 4.2 h | 1.5 h | 11k |
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 Jefferson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 47%
- No storm on record 30%
- Ice storm 11%
- Windstorm 10%
- Winter storm 1.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Jefferson
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 |
| Carroll Electric Coop, Inc | OH | 1,033 | 561 | – | 13.9 | 126k |
| 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
- Harrison 18 h
- Ohio, WV 12 h
- Hancock, WV 10 h
- Brooke, WV 10 h
- Carroll 8.6 h
- Columbiana 8.2 h
- Jefferson (this county) 7.7 h
- Belmont 6.9 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 44,919 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 →