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 ( AEP ), with around 248,794 homes and businesses

in the state without service, followed by FirstEnergy ( FE )

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