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2017 Benton County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Benton County, IN went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 7,298 customer-hours (Indiana average 2.5 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 90 Indiana counties and 1722nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with IN, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Indiana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 4, 2017 18:30 | December 4, 2017 23:30 | 5h | 755 | 1,705 |
| 2 | March 7, 2017 06:45 | March 7, 2017 09:45 | 3h | 380 | 951 |
| 3 | May 28, 2017 07:30 | May 28, 2017 08:30 | 1h | 379 | 379 |
| 4 | January 10, 2017 19:15 | January 10, 2017 21:45 | 2h 30m | 378 | 757 |
| 5 | December 18, 2017 16:30 | December 18, 2017 18:15 | 1h 45m | 360 | 541 |
| 6 | March 11, 2017 19:30 | March 11, 2017 21:30 | 2h | 154 | 282 |
| 7 | August 21, 2017 05:15 | August 21, 2017 17:30 | 12h 15m | 104 | 197 |
| 8 | March 8, 2017 19:00 | March 8, 2017 21:15 | 2h 15m | 101 | 173 |
| 9 | June 30, 2017 02:30 | June 30, 2017 11:45 | 9h 15m | 83 | 223 |
| 10 | December 8, 2017 10:15 | December 8, 2017 14:45 | 4h 30m | 71 | 197 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 8 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 4.3 hrs | 1.33 | 2.3 hrs | 0.99 |
| Tipmont Rural Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.42 | 2.2 hrs | 1.34 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Carroll-White REMC | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Newton 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,132 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, IN annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/indiana/benton-county