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

The hardest-hit state was Ohio, with around 598,204 outages, representing about 11% of the state's roughly 5.4 million customers.

Pedestrians walk past a derelict furniture store in Springfield, Ohio, U.S., February 4, 2026. / REUTERS/Bing Guan

More than 1 million homes and businesses were without power on late March 13 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

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