Power outage history
Van Wert County Ohio
6.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
32nd 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 Van Wert's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Van Wert, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,632 | 20% | 3.1 d | 3.1 d | 27k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,968 | 48% | 25 h | 16 h | 27k |
| Jun 18, 2020 | No storm report | 3,617 | 43% | 7.5 h | 2.8 h | 22k |
| Oct 10, 2020 | No storm report | 5,498 | 66% | 4.2 h | 3.8 h | 20k |
| Feb 12, 2019 | Winter storm | 2,813 | 34% | 12 h | 1.0 h | 20k |
| Jun 13, 2016 | No storm report | 1,536 | 18% | 14 h | 8.2 h | 17k |
| Jun 20, 2020 | No storm report | 1,874 | 23% | 16 h | 2.5 h | 14k |
| Nov 7, 2024 | No storm report | 2,382 | 29% | 6.0 h | 5.8 h | 14k |
| Aug 24, 2016 | Tornadoes | 1,487 | 18% | 10 h | 11 h | 13k |
| May 10, 2021 | No storm report | 2,840 | 34% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 9.9k |
| Oct 9, 2020 | No storm report | 3,624 | 44% | 2.8 h | 2.5 h | 9.1k |
| Nov 18, 2025 | No storm report | 4,291 | 52% | 2.0 h | 1.5 h | 8.6k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Windstorm | 1,912 | 23% | 9.5 h | 2.8 h | 8.1k |
| Sep 26, 2024 | No storm report | 2,370 | 28% | 3.5 h | 8.5 h | 7.9k |
| Dec 21, 2021 | No storm report | 1,336 | 16% | 5.5 h | 8.5 h | 7.2k |
| Oct 30, 2023 | No storm report | 2,835 | 34% | 4.0 h | 3.5 h | 7.1k |
| May 14, 2016 | No storm report | 2,707 | 33% | 2.5 h | 1.8 h | 6.8k |
| Jul 9, 2022 | No storm report | 1,342 | 16% | 4.8 h | 12 h | 6.4k |
| Oct 2, 2025 | No storm report | 4,295 | 52% | 1.8 h | 1.2 h | 6.2k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | Tornadoes | 651 | 8% | 16 h | 11 h | 6.2k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | Windstorm | 1,914 | 23% | 11 h | 5.8 h | 6.0k |
| Mar 15, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 776 | 9% | 34 h | 33 h | 5.7k |
| Mar 22, 2022 | No storm report | 1,329 | 16% | 4.2 h | 4.0 h | 5.6k |
| Aug 21, 2022 | No storm report | 6,307 | 76% | 3.0 h | 2.8 h | 5.5k |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 563 | 7% | 18 h | 20 h | 5.0k |
| Apr 10, 2015 | No storm report | 1,456 | 17% | 5.2 h | 3.5 h | 4.7k |
| Feb 11, 2019 | No storm report | 4,821 | 58% | 3.2 h | 3.0 h | 4.6k |
| May 23, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 3,084 | 37% | 4.0 h | 3.8 h | 4.4k |
| Oct 10, 2024 | No storm report | 1,219 | 15% | 3.2 h | 5.5 h | 4.0k |
| Dec 13, 2023 | No storm report | 739 | 9% | 6.8 h | 13 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 Van Wert from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 74%
- Thunderstorms 14%
- Winter storm 5.5%
- Windstorm 4.6%
- Tornadoes 1.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Van Wert
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 |
| Dayton Power & Light Co | Investor Owned | 168 | 97 | 0.99 | 16.1 | 469k |
| Midwest Electric, Inc | Cooperative | 255 | 91 | 1.88 | 15.8 | 11k |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 17.8 | 9.2k |
| Village of Ohio City | OH | – | – | – | – | 4.6k |
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 8,328 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 →