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2016 Wells County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wells County, IN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 7,873 customer-hours (Indiana average 3.1 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 87 Indiana counties and 2043rd 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 Wells 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 2, 2016 20:15 | April 3, 2016 09:45 | 13h 30m | 402 | 2,633 |
| 2 | March 7, 2016 16:00 | March 7, 2016 17:15 | 1h 15m | 204 | 255 |
| 3 | December 27, 2016 04:00 | December 27, 2016 06:15 | 2h 15m | 201 | 402 |
| 4 | July 9, 2016 01:15 | July 10, 2016 10:45 | 1d 9h | 193 | 520 |
| 5 | December 11, 2016 22:15 | December 12, 2016 01:15 | 3h | 192 | 459 |
| 6 | February 25, 2016 03:30 | February 25, 2016 07:00 | 3h 30m | 176 | 399 |
| 7 | January 10, 2016 12:15 | January 10, 2016 17:45 | 5h 30m | 163 | 278 |
| 8 | June 9, 2016 17:00 | June 9, 2016 20:45 | 3h 45m | 162 | 226 |
| 9 | July 21, 2016 21:30 | July 22, 2016 03:15 | 5h 45m | 148 | 193 |
| 10 | December 1, 2016 09:30 | December 1, 2016 11:30 | 2h | 122 | 54 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 10 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 Wells 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 |
| Heartland REMC | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jay County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bluffton - (IN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,366 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. Wells County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wells 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/wells-county