More than 100K without power after Hurricane Helene remnants reach the Miami Valley

Jody and Stephen Harner battle the effects from Hurricane Helene , Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 at the 53rd Aunnual Old Timers Festival at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF

Jody and Stephen Harner battle the effects from Hurricane Helene , Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 at the 53rd Aunnual Old Timers Festival at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF

Several tens of thousands of utility customers lost power Friday afternoon and evening in the Miami Valley as strong winds and heavy rain from Hurricane Helene arrived in the region.

Top wind gusts of 62 mph were reported shortly before 5 p.m. Friday in Dayton and at 4:11 p.m. in Springboro to the National Weather Service in Wilmington.

There were 102,359 customers in the dark as of 10:53 p.m. Friday, according to AES Ohio, Duke Energy, Ohio Edison and Darke Rural Electric Co-op websites.

At its height, there were nearly 115,000 without power across the Miami Valley. The majority were in Montgomery County, which had more than 53.600 AES Ohio customers without service as of 6:45 p.m., according to the AES Ohio Outage Map.

Following are outages reported as of 10:53 p.m. Friday by AES Ohio, Duke Energy, Ohio Edison and the Darke Rural Electric Co-op:

Montgomery County: 46,143

Warren County: 13,492

Greene County: 11,780

Butler County: 9,636

Clark County: 4,850

Preble County; 3,686

Darke County: 1,784

Miami County: 1,063

Champaign County: 515

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