When will the power be back in Mount Vernon, OH?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Mount Vernon is a city of about 17,329 residents in Knox County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Mount Vernon by name, so this page reports the Knox County county-wide view, which covers Mount Vernon. If a serving utility does name Mount Vernon during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
ZIP codes in Mount Vernon:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Mount Vernon: the closest other places we track are Newark, about 22 miles to the south; Heath, about 25 miles to the south; New Albany, about 26 miles to the southwest; and Mansfield, about 26 miles to the north. Also nearby: Pataskala (29 mi SW), Galion (29 mi NW), Westerville (30 mi SW), Delaware (32 mi W), Gahanna (32 mi SW), Reynoldsburg (34 mi SW), Coshocton (34 mi E) and Ashland (34 mi N).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Norwalk (60 mi); northeast toward Wooster (41 mi); east toward Dover (53 mi); southeast toward Zanesville (38 mi); south toward Lancaster (46 mi); southwest toward Worthington (35 mi); west toward Marysville (48 mi); and northwest toward Marion (37 mi).
Who serves Mount Vernon?
We track live outage data from AEP Ohio, The Energy Cooperative, FirstEnergy, Ohio's Electric Cooperatives ↗ and 1 more in Knox County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. For the parent companies' combined pictures, see AEP outages across every state it serves and FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves.
Mount Vernon's last tracked outage began Sep 22, peaked at 988 customers out, and was restored in 30 minutes. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 50 minutes.
- Sep 22 — 988 customers out, restored in 30 minutes
- Sep 16 — 81 customers out, restored in 6 hours
- Sep 13 — 327 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Sep 5 — 30 customers out, restored in 50 minutes
County context: across all of Knox County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 2.8 hr. The full record for Knox County
Common questions
When will my power be back on in Mount Vernon, OH?
It depends on the cause and how many crews are working; the live status at the top of this page shows the current outlook. For context from Mount Vernon's own record: across the 6 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 50 minutes — the outage-history panel above lists them.
How do I check the power outage status in Mount Vernon, OH?
To check your own street, search a Mount Vernon ZIP code — 43050 — and the map opens on that area.
