Power Outages in Elkhart County, IN
No live outage feed is available for Elkhart County, IN yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 7.6 hours.
Elkhart County, IN is served by local tracked utilities.
Elkhart County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Severe Thunderstorm WatchSEVERE
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
Elkhart County has been under 19 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 18, 2026.
- Air Quality Alert ×7
- Special Weather Statement ×6
- Heat Advisory ×5
- Severe Thunderstorm Watch ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Elkhart County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Elkhartno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Elkhart County went about 7.6 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 23,112 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 23,112 customers out) · decade average 7.9 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 654 | 8,706 | 7.1 |
| 2016 | 772 | 4,104 | 3.8 |
| 2017 | 823 | 6,617 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 760 | 6,794 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 800 | 9,643 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 804 | 7,824 | 5.1 |
| 2021 | 677 | 23,112 | 22.5 |
| 2022 | 742 | 12,789 | 10.7 |
| 2023 | 761 | 12,597 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 635 | 13,676 | 7.9 |
| 2025 | 763 | 13,408 | 7.6 |
Relatively High high winds exposure · 7.9 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively moderate — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Elkhart County: FAQ
- How often does Elkhart County, IN lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Elkhart County, IN logged 763 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 7.6 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Elkhart County, IN?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 23,112 customers without power, beginning August 6, 2021 and lasting about 10d 21h.
- Is there a power outage in Elkhart County, IN right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Elkhart County, IN. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Elkhart. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Elkhart County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Elkhart County.
46507, 46514, 46516, 46517, 46526, 46528, 46540, 46543, 46550, 46553, 46573
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/18039 and /api/v1/counties/18039/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Indiana customers).