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Who serves Hardin County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include AEP Ohio, Ohio's Electric Cooperatives ↗ and AES Ohio, 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 company's combined picture, see AEP outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Hardin County, OH
⚡ Power here was restored about 45 hours ago — the outage peaked at 1,936 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 1,936 customers, restored in ~1.8 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Hardin County, OH
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
157 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: ~6,707 customers out in October 2024, restored after about 1.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2017.
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 covered
Communities in Hardin County include Kenton, Ada, Forest, Alger, Dunkirk, Mount Victory, McGuffey and Ridgeway. 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 Hardin County, OH?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Hardin include AEP Ohio, Ohio's Electric Cooperatives and AES Ohio — 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.
