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Who serves Ross County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include AEP Ohio, South Central Power ↗, Buckeye Rural Electric Cooperative 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 — Ross County, OH
Last significant outage: Sep 25, 2026 — peaked at 588 customers, restored in ~2.3 hr (weather alert).
Across the 15 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 9 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 21, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Ross County, OH
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
697 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
3 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
3.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~16,195 customers out in September 2024, restored after about 6.3 hr. 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 Ross County
Communities in Ross County include Chillicothe, Kingston, Frankfort, Bainbridge, Clarksburg, Adelphi, South Salem and Andersonville. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
