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2016 Blackford County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Blackford County, IN went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.1 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 87 Indiana counties and 960th 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 Blackford 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 | August 7, 2016 14:45 | August 8, 2016 07:00 | 16h 15m | 1,183 | 5,555 |
| 2 | March 19, 2016 09:15 | March 19, 2016 10:15 | 1h | 723 | 723 |
| 3 | April 2, 2016 20:30 | April 4, 2016 02:30 | 1d 6h | 705 | 12K |
| 4 | March 14, 2016 14:30 | March 14, 2016 16:00 | 1h 30m | 518 | 777 |
| 5 | July 19, 2016 11:45 | July 20, 2016 13:15 | 1d 1h | 224 | 1,568 |
| 6 | October 1, 2016 03:15 | October 1, 2016 06:15 | 3h | 154 | 462 |
| 7 | February 19, 2016 20:15 | February 20, 2016 02:30 | 6h 15m | 141 | 352 |
| 8 | June 8, 2016 16:30 | June 8, 2016 20:45 | 4h 15m | 122 | 519 |
| 9 | December 19, 2016 13:00 | December 19, 2016 15:15 | 2h 15m | 121 | 261 |
| 10 | November 20, 2016 03:00 | November 20, 2016 05:45 | 2h 45m | 99 | 272 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 9 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 Blackford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2016 | 6.8 hrs | 1.48 | 4.4 hrs | 1.33 |
| Jay 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 ÷ 7,872 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. Blackford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blackford 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/blackford-county