Power outages in Ross County, OH

We don't have a live outage feed for the utilities serving Ross County yet. Duke Energy Ohio Inc, Dayton Power & Light Co and South Central Power Company serve this county.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages

Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.

fewer than 5customers without power

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

Utilities 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 …").

<0.01% of 23,578 customersUpdated 7 min ago

We 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.

Duke Energy Ohio Incno live feed

This 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

From 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.

Dayton Power & Light Cono live feed

This 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

From 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.

South Central Power Companyno live feed

This 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

From 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.

Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Incno live feed

This 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

From 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

County outline

Outages by ZIP code

1 of 7 ZIP codes have outages

ZIP	Area	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
45601	Chillicothe / Andersonville	fewer than 5	20,495	<0.01%
45612	Bainbridge / Cynthiana	0	862	0.00%
45617	Bourneville	0	42	0.00%
45628	Frankfort	0	449	0.00%
45644	Kingston	0	155	0.00%
45673	Richmond Dale	0	225	0.00%
45681	Bourneville / South Salem	0	317	0.00%

Outage history in Ross County

2014–2025 record

Ross County averaged 34 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for Ohio counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 36. Half were over within 2 hours; the longest lasted 9.5 hours, starting November 21, 2025.

The largest on record began September 27, 2024, with 17,215 customers out at once.

34significant outages a year (2023–2025)

At 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.

2 hourstypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

4.2 dayslongest on record (June 2016)

17,215most customers out at once

Largest events (start)	Peak out	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
September 27, 2024	17,215	3.1 days	603,775
June 23, 2016	14,302	4.2 days	148,240
March 3, 2023	12,759	2.1 days	381,218
September 11, 2020	8,264	4.5 hours	6,198
September 15, 2020	8,239	1.5 hours	8,238

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

From 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.

Cities in Ross County

Nearby counties

Utilities

Duke Energy Ohio Inc no live feed
Dayton Power & Light Co no live feed
South Central Power Company no live feed
Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc no live feed
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