Power outages in Morgan County, OH

Live outage counts for McConnelsville, Malta and Stockport and the rest of Morgan County, updated every 10 minutes from AEP Ohio.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages
iNormal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.
fewer than 5customers without power
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
iUtilities hide very small outages for privacy and publish them only as "fewer than 5". Where many of these add up, we show an estimate ("about …").
0.02% of 8,046 customersUpdated 7 min ago
iWe check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.
AEP Ohiofewer than 5 / 8,046
Guernsey-Muskingum El Coop Incno live feed
iThis utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.
Also serves this county, per federal utility records
iFrom EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.
. Check its own outage map.
Washington Electric Coop - (OH)no live feed
iThis utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.
Also serves this county, per federal utility records
iFrom EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.
. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

Outage locations not published
County outlineAEP Ohio publishes totals only, not outage locations.
iSome utilities publish only how many customers are out, not where. Their outages are in the counts but can't be drawn on the map.

Outages by ZIP code

0 of 5 ZIP codes have outages
ZIPAreaOutCustomers
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
% out
iCustomers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
43728Chesterhill05950.00%
43756McConnelsville02,8080.00%
43758Malta01,8190.00%
43787Stockport01,5810.00%
45715Beverly01,2260.00%

Outage history in Morgan County

2014–2025 record

Morgan County averaged 44 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, more than most Ohio counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 47. Half were over within 3 hours; the longest lasted 1.9 days, starting April 29, 2025.

The largest on record began August 6, 2016, with 5,356 customers out at once.

44significant outages a year (2023–2025)
iAt least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.
3 hourstypical (median) length
iHalf of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.
4 dayslongest on record (February 2022)
5,356most customers out at once
Largest events (start)Peak outLasted
iHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.
Customer-hours
iCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
August 6, 20165,3561.5 hours5,231
April 26, 20165,0891.5 hours4,747
June 23, 20165,08311 hours22,814
February 3, 20224,7874 days237,766
September 11, 20204,6804.5 hours3,510

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

iFrom EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

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