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Who serves Defiance County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include FirstEnergy, AEP Ohio, Ohio's Electric Cooperatives ↗ and North Western Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent companies' combined pictures, see AEP outages across every state it serves and FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Defiance County, OH
Last significant outage: Sep 15, 2026 — peaked at 390 customers, restored in ~2.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 3 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 20, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Defiance County, OH
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
174 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~6,724 customers out in April 2015, restored after about 2.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Defiance County
Communities in Defiance County include Hicksville, Sherwood, Ney, Adams, Brunersburg, Delaware, Farmer and Highland. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
