Power outage history
Williams County Ohio
1.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
85th most of 88 in Ohio 75% below 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 Williams'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 3.4 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Williams, 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 12, 2019 | Ice storm | 1,977 | 12% | 21 h | 9.8 h | 15k |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Winter storm | 847 | 5% | 34 h | 21 h | 14k |
| Jun 6, 2022 | No storm report | 1,331 | 8% | 20 h | 19 h | 13k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,063 | 13% | 12 h | 10 h | 12k |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 960 | 6% | 33 h | 41 h | 11k |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,465 | 9% | 10 h | 4.8 h | 8.2k |
| Oct 13, 2017 | No storm report | 2,024 | 13% | 4.5 h | 4.2 h | 8.0k |
| May 28, 2018 | No storm report | 1,801 | 11% | 5.5 h | 4.0 h | 7.0k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 1,102 | 7% | 8.5 h | 5.5 h | 5.4k |
| Mar 8, 2017 | Windstorm | 1,611 | 10% | 6.8 h | 1.0 h | 4.7k |
| May 31, 2018 | Tropical Storm Alberto | 1,347 | 8% | 2.5 h | 1.0 h | 2.9k |
| May 23, 2019 | No storm report | 446 | 3% | 11 h | – | 2.9k |
| Aug 6, 2018 | No storm report | 429 | 3% | 6.8 h | – | 2.7k |
| Apr 18, 2016 | No storm report | 703 | 4% | 3.8 h | – | 2.3k |
| May 28, 2019 | No storm report | 892 | 6% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 2.2k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Winter storm | 334 | 2% | 8.8 h | – | 2.1k |
| Jun 8, 2015 | No storm report | 899 | 6% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 2.0k |
| Jul 7, 2021 | No storm report | 351 | 2% | 6.2 h | – | 2.0k |
| Jul 26, 2022 | No storm report | 891 | 6% | 2.2 h | 1.8 h | 2.0k |
| Dec 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 911 | 6% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 1.8k |
| Jun 25, 2024 | No storm report | 521 | 3% | 4.0 h | – | 1.8k |
| Aug 2, 2024 | No storm report | 474 | 3% | 3.8 h | – | 1.8k |
| Jun 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 576 | 4% | 3.8 h | – | 1.8k |
| Apr 19, 2024 | No storm report | 207 | 1% | 9.5 h | – | 1.6k |
| Nov 12, 2020 | No storm report | 917 | 6% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 1.6k |
| Jun 5, 2016 | No storm report | 409 | 3% | 3.8 h | – | 1.5k |
| May 14, 2018 | No storm report | 904 | 6% | 1.5 h | 7.8 h | 1.4k |
| Mar 30, 2015 | No storm report | 1,075 | 7% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 1.3k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 363 | 2% | 3.8 h | – | 1.3k |
| Aug 14, 2020 | No storm report | 540 | 3% | 4.0 h | – | 1.3k |
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 Williams from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 50%
- Thunderstorms 24%
- Winter storm 12%
- Ice storm 10%
- Tropical storm 2.0%
- Windstorm 1.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Williams
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Toledo Edison Co | Investor Owned | 110 | 92 | 0.95 | 16.5 | 280k |
| North Western Elec Coop, Inc | OH | 202 | – | 2.49 | 12.8 | 80k |
| City of Bryan | OH | 40 | 40 | 0.64 | 11.8 | 46k |
| Village of Montpelier | OH | – | – | – | – | 17k |
| Village of Edgerton | OH | – | – | – | – | 8.4k |
| Village of Pioneer | OH | – | – | – | – | 8.0k |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative | Cooperative | 195 | 195 | 1.10 | 18.8 | 866 |
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
- Hillsdale, MI 19 h
- Steuben, IN 6.1 h
- Defiance 3.8 h
- Fulton 3.0 h
- Henry 2.7 h
- Williams (this county) 1.6 h
- DeKalb, IN 1.5 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 16,123 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 →