Storms cut power to over 1 million customers in US Midwest, Mid-Atlantic; Ohio hardest hit (updated)

American Electric Power

14/03/2026 24:14

Updates with latest outages

By Scott DiSavino

NEW YORK, March 13 (Reuters) - 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 598,204 outages, representing about 11% 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 248,794 homes and businesses in the state without service, followed by FirstEnergy FE.N 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:

STATE
OUTAGES
Ohio
598,204
Pennsylvania
271,583
Michigan
104,817
Wisconsin
50,971
Washington
45,914
Indiana
38,582
Virginia
16,445
TOTAL OUT
1,126,516

 (Reporting by Scott DiSavino,Anmol Choubey and Anushree Mukherjee; Editing by Ethan Smith and Cynthia Osterman)

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