Power outages in Ohio, by utility
Across 30 Ohio utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 2.8 hours in 2025 — that is 1.0× better than the national median. Ohio ranks #25 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 2.8 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 16.6 hrs
- Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc
- Best utility
- 0.3 hrs
- City of Piqua - (OH)
- Utilities reporting
- 30
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Ohio utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, IncCooperative | 16.6 hrs995 min | 3.2 | 5.6× worse |
| 2 | Guernsey-Muskingum El Coop IncCooperative | 11.6 hrs695 min | 2.4 | 3.9× worse |
| 3 | Holmes-Wayne Electric Coop IncCooperative | 5.4 hrs326 min | 2.2 | 1.8× worse |
| 4 | South Central Power CompanyCooperative | 5 hrs298 min | 2.8 | 1.7× worse |
| 5 | Midwest Electric, Inc - (OH)Cooperative | 4.2 hrs255 min | 1.9 | 1.4× worse |
| 6 | Licking Rural Electric IncCooperative | 4.1 hrs244 min | 1.6 | 1.4× worse |
| 7 | Ohio Edison CoInvestor Owned | 4.1 hrs244 min | 1.5 | 1.4× worse |
| 8 | City of Cleveland - (OH)Municipal | 3.7 hrs225 min | 0.7 | 1.3× worse |
| 9 | Ohio Power CoInvestor Owned | 3.7 hrs221 min | 1.2 | 1.2× worse |
| 10 | Lorain-Medina R E C, IncCooperative | 3.6 hrs215 min | — | 1.2× worse |
| 11 | Cleveland Electric Illum CoInvestor Owned | 3.3 hrs195 min | 1.4 | 1.1× worse |
| 12 | Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI)Cooperative | 3.3 hrs195 min | 1.1 | 1.1× worse |
| 13 | Union Rural Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 3.1 hrs184 min | 2.1 | 1.0× worse |
| 14 | Duke Energy Ohio IncInvestor Owned | 3 hrs178 min | 1.0 | 1.0× better |
| 15 | Butler Rural Electric Coop Inc - (OH)Cooperative | 2.9 hrs172 min | 1.6 | 1.0× better |
| 16 | Dayton Power & Light CoInvestor Owned | 2.8 hrs168 min | 1.0 | 1.1× better |
| 17 | North Central Elec Coop, Inc - (OH)Cooperative | 2.8 hrs165 min | — | 1.1× better |
| 18 | Consolidated CooperativeCooperative | 2.7 hrs162 min | 2.0 | 1.1× better |
| 19 | City of Painesville - (OH)Municipal | 2.6 hrs154 min | 2.3 | 1.2× better |
| 20 | City of Columbus - (OH)Municipal | 2.3 hrs141 min | 1.4 | 1.3× better |
| 21 | City of Bowling Green - (OH)Municipal | 2.3 hrs137 min | 1.4 | 1.3× better |
| 22 | Pioneer Rural Elec Coop, Inc - (OH)Cooperative | 2.2 hrs129 min | 1.5 | 1.4× better |
| 23 | City of Hamilton - (OH)Municipal | 2 hrs121 min | 1.3 | 1.5× better |
| 24 | City of Dover - (OH)Municipal | 1.9 hrs114 min | 0.9 | 1.6× better |
| 25 | The Toledo Edison CoInvestor Owned | 1.8 hrs110 min | 1.0 | 1.6× better |
| 26 | Hancock-Wood Electric Coop IncCooperative | 1 hrs62 min | 1.3 | 2.9× better |
| 27 | City of Cuyahoga Falls - (OH)Municipal | 0.9 hrs56 min | 0.5 | 3.2× better |
| 28 | City of Wadsworth - (OH)Municipal | 0.7 hrs44 min | 0.5 | 4.1× better |
| 29 | City of Westerville - (OH)Municipal | 0.4 hrs25 min | 0.3 | 7.2× better |
| 30 | City of Piqua - (OH)Municipal | 0.3 hrs18 min | 0.3 | 10.0× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.