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2017 Blackford County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Blackford County, IN went without power for an average of 12.7 hours, a total of 100K customer-hours (Indiana average 2.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 90 Indiana counties and 422nd 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 Blackford 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 | November 5, 2017 18:45 | November 6, 2017 00:00 | 5h 15m | 6,277 | 17K |
| 2 | November 6, 2017 00:45 | November 8, 2017 20:15 | 2d 19h | 5,782 | 57K |
| 3 | October 30, 2017 10:00 | October 30, 2017 14:15 | 4h 15m | 2,430 | 6,128 |
| 4 | June 29, 2017 17:15 | June 29, 2017 23:15 | 6h | 1,995 | 10K |
| 5 | June 23, 2017 02:15 | June 23, 2017 02:30 | 15m | 1,533 | 383 |
| 6 | December 2, 2017 10:15 | December 2, 2017 10:30 | 15m | 1,145 | 286 |
| 7 | February 25, 2017 01:15 | February 25, 2017 08:00 | 6h 45m | 724 | 2,005 |
| 8 | July 15, 2017 15:45 | July 15, 2017 18:30 | 2h 45m | 388 | 975 |
| 9 | March 1, 2017 04:30 | March 1, 2017 12:45 | 8h 15m | 135 | 706 |
| 10 | December 5, 2017 05:00 | December 5, 2017 07:00 | 2h | 135 | 243 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 11 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Blackford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.56 | 3.9 hrs | 1.36 |
| Jay 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 ÷ 7,872 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. Blackford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blackford 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/blackford-county