When will the power be back in Knox County, OH?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Knox County, OH right now.

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Elsewhere in Ohio: 1,218 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 11:31 PM EDT.

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Who serves Knox County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include AEP Ohio, The Energy Cooperative, FirstEnergy, Ohio's Electric Cooperatives ↗ and 1 more, 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 — Knox County, OH

Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 260 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).

Across the 12 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.2 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 8, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Knox County, OH

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 439 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 2 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

Largest on record: ~22,269 customers out in July 2023, restored after about 7.8 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 Knox County

Mount Vernon

Communities in Knox County include Mount Vernon, Fredericktown, Gambier, Centerburg, Danville, Martinsburg, Apple Valley and Berlin. 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 Knox County, OH?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Knox include AEP Ohio, The Energy Cooperative, 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.

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