Factbox: Storms cut power to 396,000 customers in US Midwest, Mid-Atlantic; Ohio hardest hit

American Electric Power

13/03/2026 19:29

By Scott DiSavino

NEW YORK, March 13 (Reuters) - Over 396,000 homes and businesses were without power on 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 123,000 outages, representing about 2.3% 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 AEP.O, with around 40,000 homes and businesses in the state without service. AEP provides service to around 1.5 million electric customers in Ohio, the data showed.

Here are the major outages by state:

State
Outages
Ohio
123,300
Wisconsin
81,100
Michigan
75,100
Indiana
73,700
Illinois
30,700
Pennsylvania
12,600
Total Out
396,500

(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by Ethan Smith)

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