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

Power outage history

Pike County Ohio

25hours

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

1st most of 88 in Ohio 3.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Helene · Sep 28, 2024 79% of customers out · 90% back in 2.2 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 25h / yr State average 5.5 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 8.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.1days Hurricane Helene, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 61% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 2.0 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,100 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 Pike'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pike, hours without power per customer

PikeUS median countyOhio average
0 20 40 60 15 ’15 6.8 ’16 16 ’17 16 ’18 23 ’19 10.0 ’20 12 ’21 45 ’22 31 ’23 49 ’24 11 ’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
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 7,949 79% 4.1 d 2.2 d 351k
Jun 13, 2022 Thunderstorms 7,655 76% 3.4 d 2.6 d 245k
Mar 3, 2023 Windstorm 4,797 48% 2.8 d 34 h 132k
Feb 3, 2022 Ice storm 3,759 37% 3.7 d 35 h 104k
Mar 25, 2023 No storm report 3,071 30% 47 h 23 h 71k
Jul 14, 2024 Thunderstorms 5,326 53% 26 h 15 h 55k
Jul 13, 2015 Thunderstorms 1,870 19% 2.3 d 23 h 51k
Mar 1, 2017 Thunderstorms 2,562 25% 36 h 28 h 41k
Feb 24, 2015 No storm report 1,636 16% 27 h 26 h 40k
May 8, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,563 25% 19 h 12 h 26k
Jun 24, 2019 Tornadoes 3,286 33% 29 h 20 h 26k
Apr 1, 2023 No storm report 5,201 52% 11 h 5.0 h 25k

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 +10h 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 Pike from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 39%
  • Thunderstorms 22%
  • Tropical storm 20%
  • Windstorm 7.5%
  • Ice storm 6.2%
  • Winter storm 2.6%
  • Tornadoes 1.4%
  • Flooding 1.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pike

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
Duke Energy Ohio Inc Investor Owned 178 108 1.01 16.8 700k
South Central Power Company Cooperative 298 198 2.83 15.4 118k
Adams Rural Electric Coop, Inc OH – – – 13.9 93k
Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 995 995 3.19 20.5 16k
Ohio Valley Electric Corp Investor Owned – – – – –

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 10,100 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 →