County annual report · FIPS 18127
2016 Porter County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Porter County, IN went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 322K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.1 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 87 Indiana counties and 821st 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 Porter 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 24, 2016 13:00 | February 27, 2016 05:00 | 2d 16h | 8,853 | 90K |
| 2 | February 19, 2016 14:00 | February 21, 2016 19:00 | 2d 5h | 5,390 | 19K |
| 3 | August 11, 2016 03:15 | August 11, 2016 13:45 | 10h 30m | 4,830 | 11K |
| 4 | December 4, 2016 19:30 | December 5, 2016 22:00 | 1d 2h | 3,399 | 31K |
| 5 | December 19, 2016 05:30 | December 19, 2016 23:45 | 18h 15m | 3,281 | 16K |
| 6 | July 23, 2016 11:15 | July 26, 2016 10:15 | 2d 23h | 3,125 | 17K |
| 7 | July 6, 2016 09:15 | July 7, 2016 08:30 | 23h 15m | 1,838 | 3,574 |
| 8 | January 27, 2016 22:00 | January 28, 2016 23:00 | 1d 1h | 1,819 | 3,615 |
| 9 | April 28, 2016 21:00 | April 29, 2016 06:15 | 9h 15m | 1,557 | 1,237 |
| 10 | February 19, 2016 08:00 | February 19, 2016 09:45 | 1h 45m | 1,536 | 1,564 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 101 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 Porter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kankakee Valley Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jasper 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 ÷ 84,000 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. Porter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Porter 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/indiana/porter-county