County annual report · FIPS 18007
2015 Benton County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Benton County, IN went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Indiana average 2.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 87 Indiana counties and 220th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with IN, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Indiana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 28, 2015 16:15 | December 30, 2015 23:00 | 2d 6h | 1,992 | 45K |
| 2 | July 13, 2015 21:15 | July 14, 2015 06:45 | 9h 30m | 439 | 774 |
| 3 | May 26, 2015 19:00 | May 26, 2015 23:30 | 4h 30m | 385 | 1,446 |
| 4 | December 21, 2015 17:30 | December 21, 2015 18:30 | 1h | 134 | 101 |
| 5 | December 21, 2015 20:45 | December 21, 2015 21:00 | 15m | 134 | 34 |
| 6 | September 5, 2015 14:00 | September 5, 2015 17:00 | 3h | 98 | 233 |
| 7 | December 24, 2015 01:30 | December 24, 2015 07:00 | 5h 30m | 76 | 370 |
| 8 | June 12, 2015 20:45 | June 13, 2015 11:15 | 14h 30m | 72 | 312 |
| 9 | May 30, 2015 22:30 | May 31, 2015 04:00 | 5h 30m | 58 | 63 |
| 10 | June 21, 2015 05:15 | June 21, 2015 09:15 | 4h | 43 | 61 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 5 reached 100+ customers, 1 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Indiana, LLC | 2015 | 3.5 hrs | 1.27 | 2.0 hrs | 1.03 |
| Tipmont Rural Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 3.0 hrs | 1.53 | 2.4 hrs | 1.46 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Carroll-White REMC | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Newton County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Indiana's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,132 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, IN annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/indiana/benton-county