Power outage history
Lawrence County Ohio
15hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
7th most of 88 in Ohio 2.2× 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 Lawrence's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Lawrence, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 17,257 | 46% | 10.4 d | 4.5 d | 1.5M |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 16,896 | 45% | 3.0 d | 2.3 d | 553k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 10,331 | 28% | 3.4 d | 2.8 d | 361k |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Winter storm | 7,825 | 21% | 3.3 d | 47 h | 229k |
| May 22, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 10,778 | 29% | 31 h | 41 h | 166k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | Windstorm | 5,118 | 14% | 2.0 d | 25 h | 73k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Windstorm | 2,555 | 7% | 22 h | 12 h | 38k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Windstorm | 3,464 | 9% | 21 h | 6.2 h | 37k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Flooding | 2,091 | 6% | 27 h | 25 h | 32k |
| Apr 9, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,724 | 10% | 11 h | 8.2 h | 28k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | No storm report | 3,084 | 8% | 13 h | 6.5 h | 22k |
| May 24, 2024 | No storm report | 1,998 | 5% | 14 h | 12 h | 20k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 2,611 | 7% | 20 h | 23 h | 19k |
| Apr 19, 2021 | No storm report | 1,364 | 4% | 13 h | – | 18k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 3,209 | 9% | 8.8 h | 6.0 h | 18k |
| May 9, 2021 | No storm report | 3,219 | 9% | 7.8 h | 4.8 h | 17k |
| Jun 13, 2017 | No storm report | 4,109 | 11% | 6.5 h | 3.0 h | 16k |
| Sep 28, 2019 | No storm report | 4,531 | 12% | 4.5 h | 2.0 h | 15k |
| Oct 20, 2018 | Windstorm | 2,323 | 6% | 13 h | 13 h | 12k |
| Feb 28, 2023 | No storm report | 2,121 | 6% | 7.2 h | 7.2 h | 12k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | No storm report | 3,316 | 9% | 4.0 h | 1.5 h | 11k |
| Oct 4, 2015 | No storm report | 1,606 | 4% | 6.8 h | – | 11k |
| Jul 6, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,865 | 8% | 6.5 h | 4.2 h | 11k |
| Nov 4, 2015 | No storm report | 1,925 | 5% | 11 h | 30 min | 10k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,026 | 5% | 6.8 h | 5.8 h | 9.7k |
| Apr 24, 2022 | No storm report | 2,621 | 7% | 4.5 h | 2.8 h | 9.5k |
| Jun 29, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,253 | 3% | 14 h | – | 9.3k |
| Oct 23, 2021 | No storm report | 1,154 | 3% | 8.0 h | – | 9.2k |
| May 14, 2024 | No storm report | 1,181 | 3% | 8.0 h | – | 9.0k |
| Apr 6, 2017 | No storm report | 1,368 | 4% | 6.5 h | – | 8.6k |
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 Lawrence from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 47%
- Thunderstorms 21%
- No storm on record 16%
- Tropical storm 9.9%
- Windstorm 5.3%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Lawrence
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
- Wayne, WV 50 h
- Cabell, WV 18 h
- Boyd, KY 18 h
- Lawrence (this county) 15 h
- Greenup, KY 13 h
- Jackson 9.0 h
- Gallia 8.0 h
- Scioto 6.6 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 37,176 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 →