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When will the power be back in Bowling Green, OH?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Wood County, Ohio
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customers reported out in Bowling Green · live from FirstEnergy (Ohio) · updated 10:04 PM EDT
Across the whole county (Wood, Ohio, all utilities): 7 reported out — a broader count from a different source; don't add it to the Bowling Green figure above.
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Official ETA, when the utility posts oneIndependent estimated return window when trend data allows — often available first
Utility-reported status & customer countsConfidence range + whether the outage is growing, stable, or restoring

How the forecast works: we analyze how quickly customers are being restored, whether the outage is still growing, current weather, outage size, and similar past outages in this area. Every completed forecast is compared with when power actually returned. As of Aug 19, 7,878 completed outages have been graded this way — median error 2 hours across the most recent 600 of them (about 1.9 days), and we publish the misses. See the full record (how it works). Independent and unofficial: never the utility's commitment.

Track current power outages in Bowling Green, Ohio — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Bowling Green is a city in Wood County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Bowling Green directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Bowling Green

Bowling Green is a city of about 30,463 residents in Wood County.

FirstEnergy has reported outages for Bowling Green by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-08-17) — so when Bowling Green 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 Bowling Green: 43402 · 43403 Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Bowling Green: the closest other places we track are Perrysburg, about 11 miles to the north; Maumee, about 13 miles to the north; Fostoria, about 19 miles to the southeast; Toledo, about 20 miles to the north. Also nearby: Oregon (22 mi NE), Findlay (23 mi S), Sylvania (23 mi N), Fremont (28 mi E), Tiffin (30 mi SE), Defiance (38 mi W), Monroe, MI (40 mi N), Adrian, MI (41 mi NW). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Flat Rock, MI (53 mi); northeast toward Trenton, MI (58 mi); east toward Sandusky (49 mi); southeast toward Bucyrus (53 mi); south toward Bellefontaine (70 mi); southwest toward Lima (50 mi); west toward Auburn, IN (73 mi); northwest toward Jackson, MI (71 mi).

Who serves Bowling Green?

We track live outage data from AEP Ohio, FirstEnergy, North Central Electric Coop in Wood County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. See the forecast panel above for how the estimate works — its inputs, its independence from the utility, and how every completed forecast is scored against what actually happened. Outages below 5 customers are too small for a meaningful area-wide estimate — the page says so instead of guessing.

Outage history — Wood County, OH (covers Bowling Green)
Last significant outage: Aug 11, 2026 — peaked at 260 customers, restored in ~1.8 hr (weather alert).
Across the 3 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 11 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Wood County, OH (covers Bowling Green)
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 344 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Ohio norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~7,398 customers out in December 2021, restored after about 11 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
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.

Common questions

When will my power be back on in Bowling Green, OH?

It depends on the cause and how many crews are working. When's the Power Back? combines the live outage count, the current restoration rate, weather, and local history into an independent estimate for the Bowling Green area — shown even before your utility posts an official restoration time. Check the live power outage status at the top of this page.

How do I check the power outage status in Bowling Green, OH?

This page is a live power outage status check for the Bowling Green area: current customers out, the affected areas on the map, and an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data is available, refreshed about every 15 minutes from utilities' own outage maps and the federal government's county outage data. To narrow it to your own street, search a Bowling Green ZIP code — 43402, 43403 — and the map opens on that area. Your utility's own outage map remains the official word for your account.

How do I report a power outage in Bowling Green, OH?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities tracked in Wood County include AEP Ohio, FirstEnergy, North Central Electric Coop; confirm your own provider, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Does this page show Bowling Green specifically, or the whole county?

Both, and for Bowling Green we have the city-level view: FirstEnergy has published outages for Bowling Green under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-08-17. When Bowling Green is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Wood County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Bowling Green.

How accurate is the restoration estimate?

Every estimate is later graded against when the tracked outage was substantially restored (~90% of customers back), and the track record is published on our accuracy page. Estimates firm up a few hours into an outage once a steady restoration trend appears; very small outages are marked "too small to estimate" rather than guessed.

Bowling Green, OH — live power outage tracker