When will the power be back in Franklin County, OH?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Ohio
17
customers reported out in Franklin County, OH
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Official restoration time (AEP Ohio): Oct 4, 12:00 PM EDT
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~15 hr start to finish (20 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 11:37 PM EDT.
817county-wide trend of customers without power · last 16 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Reynoldsburg — 9 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 12:00 PM EDT
Galloway — <5 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 12:00 PM EDT
⚡ No power in Franklin, OH? We'll notify you when the outage we're tracking looks mostly restored.
An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include AEP Ohio, South Central Power ↗, FirstEnergy, The Energy Cooperative and 1 more, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Westerville, City of Columbus and Village of Obetz also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. 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 — Franklin County, OH
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 1,158 customers, restored in ~7.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 40 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 21.9 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 2, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Franklin County, OH
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
3,180 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 53 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~8.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in fall.
That is longer than the Ohio norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~165,305 customers out in June 2022, restored after about 2.5 days. The busiest year on record here was 2021.
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.
Communities in Franklin County include Columbus, Dublin, Grove City, Reynoldsburg, Hilliard, Westerville, Upper Arlington and Gahanna. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Franklin County, OH?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Franklin include AEP Ohio, South Central Power, FirstEnergy and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
