Van Wert County, Ohio Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Van Wert County, Ohio had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.52 times the US outage time per person and 0.68 times the Ohio rate. It ranks 58 of 88 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

60 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Mayhardest months

June and May made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 18, 2017, reached 1,632 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 60.5 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	6,821	4	0
2016	38,637	10	2
2017	35,115	13	2
2018	12,115	13	0
2019	52,095	25	2
2020	98,002	27	1
2021	27,658	13	0
2022	35,568	15	1
2023	26,263	17	0

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
May 18, 2017	60.5	1,632	23,246
Jun 18, 2020	6.5	3,617	21,777
Oct 10, 2020	4.2	5,498	19,600
Jun 13, 2016	13.8	1,536	16,688
Jun 20, 2020	15.5	1,874	14,252

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.