Columbiana County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.30 times the US outage time per person and 1.68 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 24 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 25, 2023, reached 15,913 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 83.5 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	132,505	61	2
2016	144,676	62	2
2017	125,851	71	1
2018	486,614	76	4
2019	357,706	89	7
2020	420,852	62	5
2021	185,979	68	4
2022	129,497	71	1
2023	863,304	59	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
Mar 25, 2023	83.5	15,913	353,629
Nov 15, 2018	72.0	13,027	313,239
Aug 25, 2023	66.2	15,671	295,004
Apr 1, 2023	55.2	10,375	156,902
Apr 8, 2020	64.8	8,423	118,995

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.