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

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, 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:

STATE  OUTAGES

Ohio

598,204

Pennsylvania 271,583

104,817

Michigan

Wisconsin 50,971

45,914

Washington

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)