When's the Power Back?

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

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Ohio
14
customers reported out in Portage County, OH
Reported as one combined county-wide total by Ohio Edison Co · county-wide data
Official restoration time (FirstEnergy): Oct 4, 1:30 AM EDT
County-wide restoration outlook: grew sharply just now — already running longer than the typical past outage here of under 500 customers in the same kind of weather (~2 hr start to finish), based on 9 past outages
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 11:38 PM EDT.
00 out, then 266266 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 5 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
Windham Township — 11 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 1:30 AM EDT
Windham — 3 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 1:30 AM EDT
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Who serves Portage County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include FirstEnergy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. This is the utility we track here, not necessarily the only one serving it — 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 — Portage County, OH
Last significant outage: Sep 26, 2026 — peaked at 649 customers, restored in ~5.7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 24 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.3 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 — Portage County, OH
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 803 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 8 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~3.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~31,116 customers out in August 2023, restored after about 3.1 days. The busiest year on record here was 2018.
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 Portage County

Communities in Portage County include Kent, Aurora, Streetsboro, Ravenna, Garrettsville, Windham, Mantua and Hiram. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

Portage County, OH — live power outage tracker