County annual report · FIPS 18007
2016 Benton County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Benton County, IN went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.1 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 87 Indiana counties and 961st of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with IN, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Indiana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 21, 2016 14:00 | April 21, 2016 14:30 | 30m | 543 | 272 |
| 2 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 24, 2016 02:30 | 15h 45m | 526 | 1,394 |
| 3 | October 12, 2016 21:00 | October 13, 2016 05:30 | 8h 30m | 432 | 792 |
| 4 | December 18, 2016 10:00 | December 18, 2016 16:00 | 6h | 422 | 1,042 |
| 5 | July 18, 2016 07:30 | July 18, 2016 14:45 | 7h 15m | 379 | 1,996 |
| 6 | January 12, 2016 18:15 | January 13, 2016 03:45 | 9h 30m | 250 | 637 |
| 7 | June 23, 2016 04:30 | June 23, 2016 10:00 | 5h 30m | 220 | 1,134 |
| 8 | July 17, 2016 16:15 | July 17, 2016 18:45 | 2h 30m | 158 | 161 |
| 9 | June 24, 2016 07:30 | June 24, 2016 09:30 | 2h | 155 | 275 |
| 10 | February 19, 2016 02:00 | February 19, 2016 03:30 | 1h 30m | 154 | 231 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 4.8 hrs | 1.34 | 2.4 hrs | 1.10 |
| Tipmont Rural Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 3.1 hrs | 1.65 | 1.8 hrs | 1.22 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/indiana/benton-county