County annual report · FIPS 18039
2016 Elkhart County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Elkhart County, IN went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 269K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.1 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 87 Indiana counties and 825th 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 Elkhart 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 | February 19, 2016 12:15 | February 22, 2016 19:00 | 3d 6h | 4,104 | 18K |
| 2 | December 17, 2016 17:30 | December 18, 2016 01:45 | 8h 15m | 3,707 | 6,794 |
| 3 | September 6, 2016 17:45 | September 8, 2016 07:30 | 1d 13h | 3,433 | 17K |
| 4 | July 12, 2016 13:00 | July 18, 2016 19:00 | 6d 6h | 3,247 | 22K |
| 5 | June 26, 2016 15:45 | June 27, 2016 23:30 | 1d 7h | 2,959 | 16K |
| 6 | August 28, 2016 18:30 | August 30, 2016 03:15 | 1d 8h | 2,935 | 9,595 |
| 7 | May 14, 2016 03:30 | May 14, 2016 16:00 | 12h 30m | 2,652 | 9,643 |
| 8 | August 12, 2016 20:45 | August 19, 2016 18:30 | 6d 21h | 2,136 | 21K |
| 9 | December 4, 2016 13:30 | December 5, 2016 21:30 | 1d 8h | 2,124 | 8,105 |
| 10 | June 22, 2016 17:30 | June 23, 2016 10:00 | 16h 30m | 2,088 | 6,777 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 110 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 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 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2014 | 9.8 hrs | 2.23 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 |
| Noble County R E M C | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.54 | 2.5 hrs | 1.54 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/elkhart-county