NEW YORK—More than 1 million homes and businesses were without power on late Friday as severe storms battered the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
The hardest-hit state was Ohio, with around 446,580 outages, representing about 8 percent of the state’s roughly 5.4 million customers, according to the data.
The hardest-hit utility in Ohio was a unit of American Electric Power, with around 248,794 homes and businesses in the state without service, followed by FirstEnergy with around 225,210.
AEP provides service to around 1.5 million electric customers in Ohio, the data showed.
Here are the major outages by state as of 10:36 p.m. ET:
State Outages
Ohio 446,580
Pennsylvania 296,594
Michigan 149,810
Hawaii 107,419
Wisconsin 46,076
Washington 40,861
Indiana 24,805
West Virginia 20,998
Total Outage
1,186,102
By Scott DiSavino
