When will the power be back in Wooster, OH?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Wooster is a city of about 26,982 residents in Wayne County.
AEP Ohio, FirstEnergy and Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative have reported outages for Wooster by name on their own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Wooster is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
ZIP codes in Wooster:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Wooster: the closest other places we track are Wadsworth, about 18 miles to the northeast; Ashland, about 20 miles to the west; New Franklin, about 20 miles to the northeast; and Norton, about 21 miles to the northeast. Also nearby: Massillon (21 mi E), Barberton (22 mi NE), Medina (22 mi N), Green (26 mi E), Akron (28 mi NE), North Canton (28 mi E), Canton (30 mi E) and Brunswick (30 mi N).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Strongsville (35 mi); northeast toward Cuyahoga Falls (32 mi); east toward Alliance (43 mi); southeast toward Dover (31 mi); south toward Coshocton (39 mi); southwest toward Mount Vernon (41 mi); west toward Mansfield (31 mi); and northwest toward Vermilion (46 mi).
Who serves Wooster?
We track live outage data from AEP Ohio, FirstEnergy, Ohio's Electric Cooperatives ↗ and Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative in Wayne County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of Orrville and Village of Marshallville also serve parts of Wayne County — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. For the parent companies' combined pictures, see AEP outages across every state it serves and FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves.
Wooster's last tracked outage began Sep 12, peaked at 108 customers out, and was restored in 2 hours. Across the 5 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 4 hours.
- Sep 12 — 108 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Sep 11 — 25 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Sep 8 — 30 customers out, restored in 7 hours
- Sep 3 — 348 customers out, restored in 10 hours
County context: across all of Wayne County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 2.5 hr. The full record for Wayne County
Common questions
When will my power be back on in Wooster, 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 Wooster's own record: across the 5 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 4 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.
How do I check the power outage status in Wooster, OH?
To check your own street, search a Wooster ZIP code — 44691 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show Wooster specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Wooster we have the city-level view: AEP Ohio, FirstEnergy and Holmes-Wayne Electric Cooperative have published outages for Wooster under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-09-18. When Wooster is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Wayne County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Wooster.
