Power outage history
Morrow County Ohio
6.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
38th most of 88 in Ohio close to 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 Morrow's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 29 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Morrow, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2022 | Tornadoes | 16,030 | 66% | 5.6 d | 2.9 d | 591k |
| Jul 17, 2022 | No storm report | 1,932 | 8% | 15 h | 15 h | 27k |
| May 12, 2022 | No storm report | 1,848 | 8% | 24 h | 24 h | 25k |
| Dec 30, 2019 | Windstorm | 3,940 | 16% | 14 h | 13 h | 24k |
| Jan 21, 2021 | No storm report | 7,708 | 32% | 4.0 h | 3.2 h | 19k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 884 | 4% | 18 h | – | 8.4k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,773 | 7% | 11 h | 12 h | 8.2k |
| Jul 4, 2024 | No storm report | 523 | 2% | 16 h | – | 8.1k |
| May 2, 2019 | No storm report | 1,514 | 6% | 4.5 h | 5.0 h | 6.7k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,631 | 7% | 7.2 h | 6.8 h | 6.7k |
| Nov 30, 2022 | No storm report | 1,488 | 6% | 8.2 h | 4.2 h | 6.6k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,055 | 4% | 11 h | – | 6.2k |
| Jul 2, 2019 | No storm report | 978 | 4% | 10 h | – | 5.9k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | No storm report | 1,846 | 8% | 6.8 h | 2.2 h | 5.8k |
| Oct 13, 2020 | No storm report | 777 | 3% | 7.0 h | – | 5.4k |
| Jul 22, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 5,002 | 21% | 5.5 h | 5.2 h | 5.0k |
| Aug 20, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,201 | 5% | 7.0 h | – | 4.9k |
| Dec 2, 2022 | No storm report | 3,423 | 14% | 1.8 h | 2.0 h | 4.6k |
| Jan 8, 2019 | No storm report | 2,358 | 10% | 2.8 h | 1.5 h | 4.5k |
| Mar 22, 2019 | No storm report | 1,021 | 4% | 7.0 h | – | 4.4k |
| Jun 17, 2019 | No storm report | 1,929 | 8% | 2.8 h | 4.8 h | 4.3k |
| Aug 11, 2016 | No storm report | 4,496 | 19% | 1.0 h | 48 min | 4.1k |
| Jan 25, 2023 | No storm report | 3,422 | 14% | 1.8 h | 1.5 h | 3.9k |
| Mar 17, 2023 | No storm report | 1,954 | 8% | 2.8 h | 2.2 h | 3.8k |
| Jun 23, 2016 | No storm report | 493 | 2% | 8.2 h | – | 3.8k |
| Jul 6, 2022 | No storm report | 443 | 2% | 12 h | – | 3.8k |
| Jul 13, 2016 | No storm report | 735 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 3.8k |
| Mar 26, 2021 | No storm report | 1,061 | 4% | 6.0 h | – | 3.7k |
| Dec 28, 2015 | No storm report | 311 | 1% | 12 h | – | 3.6k |
| Dec 18, 2023 | No storm report | 1,048 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 3.6k |
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 Morrow from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tornadoes 61%
- No storm on record 32%
- Windstorm 3.3%
- Thunderstorms 3.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Morrow
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 |
| Ohio Edison Co | Investor Owned | 244 | 131 | 1.51 | 16.0 | 961k |
| Mid-Ohio Energy Coop, Inc | OH | 71 | 71 | – | 13.3 | 112k |
| City of Galion | OH | – | – | – | 14.3 | 44k |
| Consolidated Cooperative | Cooperative | 162 | 109 | 1.99 | 17.0 | 17k |
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.
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 24,221 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 →