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Who serves Lake County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include FirstEnergy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Painesville also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Lake County, OH
⚡ Power here was restored about 39 hours ago — the outage peaked at 788 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 788 customers, restored in ~2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 27 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 3, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Lake County, OH
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
895 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
20 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
3.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~65,283 customers out in August 2024, restored after about 19.3 hr. 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.
Cities we track in Lake County
Communities in Lake County include Mentor, Willoughby, Painesville, Eastlake, Willowick, Wickliffe, Willoughby Hills and Mentor-on-the-Lake. 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 Lake County, OH?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Lake include FirstEnergy and City of Painesville — 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.
