CLEVELAND, Ohio — Nearly 2,000 FirstEnergy customers across Ohio were without power Thursday morning on Thanksgiving, according to the utility’s online outage map.
As of 9:17 a.m., FirstEnergy reported 1,964 customers without electricity statewide, out of more than 2.1 million served.
The largest concentration of outages was in Ashtabula County, where 663 customers — about 1.27% of the county — were without power. Cuyahoga County had the next-highest total with 608 outages, affecting about 0.11% of customers.
In Geauga County, 235 customers were without service (0.59%), while Lake County reported 70 outages and Lorain County had 38. Smaller pockets were scattered across other counties, including Lucas (24 outages) and Ashland (2).
Most counties on the FirstEnergy map showed 0% of customers affected.
The cause of the outages was not immediately listed. FirstEnergy updates its outage map every 15 minutes and cautions that it can take up to 35 minutes for new outages to appear.
Customers can view current outages or report a loss of power at outages-oh.firstenergycorp.com.
