Factbox-Storms cut power to 836,000 customers in US Midwest, Mid-Atlantic; Ohio hardest hit

By Scott DiSavino

NEW YORK, March 13 (Reuters) - More than 836,000 homes and businesses were without power on 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 412,850 outages, representing about 7.6% of the state's roughly 5.4 million customers, according to the data.

The hardest-hit utility in Ohio was a unit of FirstEnergy with around 172,850 homes and businesses in the state without service,

followed by American Electric Power, with around 114,560. FirstEnergy provides service to around 6.2 million electric customers while AEP provides service to around 1.5 million electric customers in Ohio.

Here are the major outages by state:

STATE  OUTAGES 

Ohio  412,850

Wisconsin    75,718

Indiana    66,895

Michigan    66,824

Washington    44,045

Illinois    25,333

Pennsylvania    20,430

Virginia    31,370

TOTAL OUT 836,722

(Reporting by Scott DiSavino and Anmol Choubey; Editing by Ethan Smith)