Belmont County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Belmont County, Ohio had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.55 times the US outage time per person and 2.01 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 17 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

99 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 3, 2022, reached 17,291 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 98.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Ohio counties

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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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	63,606	45	1
2016	87,304	54	0
2017	119,974	62	5
2018	129,091	54	3
2019	229,939	68	5
2020	226,875	61	5
2021	151,689	64	3
2022	1,083,684	44	4
2023	112,999	33	3

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
Feb 3, 2022	98.8	17,291	628,253
Jun 14, 2022	92.2	11,194	351,887
Feb 24, 2019	48.5	6,303	87,070
Aug 25, 2020	11.2	6,575	46,630
May 6, 2019	9.8	5,570	43,500

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.