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

ReutersMar 14, 2026 12:14 AM

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

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