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2016 Howard County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Howard County, IN went without power for an average of 20.2 hours, a total of 834K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.1 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 87 Indiana counties and 143rd 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 Howard 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 24, 2016 18:00 | August 30, 2016 00:30 | 5d 6h | 26,416 | 669K |
| 2 | July 1, 2016 09:15 | July 1, 2016 19:30 | 10h 15m | 5,064 | 2,514 |
| 3 | April 2, 2016 17:30 | April 4, 2016 04:00 | 1d 10h | 2,707 | 35K |
| 4 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | June 26, 2016 00:30 | 2d 13h | 2,684 | 46K |
| 5 | December 14, 2016 02:30 | December 14, 2016 08:00 | 5h 30m | 2,426 | 4,248 |
| 6 | June 23, 2016 05:15 | June 23, 2016 10:00 | 4h 45m | 2,249 | 6,133 |
| 7 | November 28, 2016 22:00 | November 29, 2016 10:00 | 12h | 1,975 | 9,707 |
| 8 | September 10, 2016 03:30 | September 10, 2016 17:15 | 13h 45m | 1,830 | 4,959 |
| 9 | May 12, 2016 16:45 | May 13, 2016 03:00 | 10h 15m | 1,377 | 1,474 |
| 10 | March 11, 2016 13:45 | March 11, 2016 17:45 | 4h | 1,254 | 322 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 62 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Howard 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 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2016 | 6.8 hrs | 1.48 | 4.4 hrs | 1.33 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Carroll-White REMC | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 41,367 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county