Adams County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Adams County, Ohio had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.77 times the US outage time per person and 2.30 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 12 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 8,083 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 67.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	44,361	15	1
2016	48,648	54	0
2017	142,839	46	5
2018	98,501	41	2
2019	70,463	73	1
2020	103,723	44	3
2021	136,131	43	4
2022	115,627	53	3
2023	316,143	48	6

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 3, 2023	67.5	8,083	219,002
May 14, 2017	66.5	907	56,868
Jun 19, 2021	38.0	3,410	53,531
Feb 3, 2022	43.0	1,524	32,481
Jul 1, 2017	43.8	507	21,737

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.