County annual report · FIPS 18039
2015 Elkhart County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Elkhart County, IN went without power for an average of 7.1 hours, a total of 504K customer-hours (Indiana average 2.9 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 87 Indiana counties and 377th 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 Elkhart 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 | July 19, 2015 03:00 | July 22, 2015 17:15 | 3d 14h | 8,706 | 219K |
| 2 | July 18, 2015 15:30 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 10h 15m | 6,863 | 6,470 |
| 3 | December 28, 2015 14:30 | December 31, 2015 00:15 | 2d 9h | 5,849 | 111K |
| 4 | November 6, 2015 06:15 | November 6, 2015 06:45 | 30m | 2,898 | 1,449 |
| 5 | December 1, 2015 13:15 | December 2, 2015 01:30 | 12h 15m | 2,176 | 7,582 |
| 6 | April 12, 2015 10:15 | April 12, 2015 10:30 | 15m | 2,170 | 543 |
| 7 | July 13, 2015 11:00 | July 15, 2015 05:00 | 1d 18h | 1,892 | 16K |
| 8 | December 19, 2015 05:30 | December 19, 2015 07:30 | 2h | 1,873 | 3,746 |
| 9 | May 5, 2015 23:30 | May 6, 2015 02:00 | 2h 30m | 1,712 | 1,713 |
| 10 | August 3, 2015 03:30 | August 4, 2015 10:30 | 1d 7h | 1,674 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 84 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Elkhart 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2015 | 7.6 hrs | 1.49 | 3.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2014 | 9.8 hrs | 2.23 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 |
| Noble County R E M C | 2015 | 4.3 hrs | 1.34 | 2.4 hrs | 1.10 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lagrange 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 ÷ 70,799 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. Elkhart County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elkhart 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/elkhart-county