County annual report · FIPS 18039
2017 Elkhart County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Elkhart County, IN went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 235K customer-hours (Indiana average 2.5 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 90 Indiana counties and 1244th 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 Elkhart 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 | May 9, 2017 15:30 | May 10, 2017 03:30 | 12h | 6,617 | 17K |
| 2 | April 30, 2017 02:30 | April 30, 2017 20:15 | 17h 45m | 5,512 | 15K |
| 3 | March 1, 2017 00:00 | March 2, 2017 00:30 | 1d | 2,984 | 21K |
| 4 | August 3, 2017 19:30 | August 5, 2017 18:15 | 1d 22h | 2,335 | 12K |
| 5 | March 8, 2017 14:15 | March 10, 2017 06:00 | 1d 15h | 2,229 | 11K |
| 6 | July 4, 2017 21:30 | July 5, 2017 10:15 | 12h 45m | 2,123 | 8,559 |
| 7 | January 10, 2017 19:45 | January 12, 2017 05:00 | 1d 9h | 1,848 | 11K |
| 8 | August 5, 2017 19:30 | August 6, 2017 01:00 | 5h 30m | 1,838 | 2,761 |
| 9 | January 26, 2017 14:00 | January 26, 2017 17:15 | 3h 15m | 1,678 | 1,434 |
| 10 | June 29, 2017 11:15 | June 30, 2017 19:00 | 1d 7h | 1,669 | 4,184 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 105 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Elkhart 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 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2014 | 9.8 hrs | 2.23 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 |
| Noble County R E M C | 2017 | 3.8 hrs | 1.83 | 3.7 hrs | 1.83 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lagrange 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 ÷ 70,799 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. Elkhart County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elkhart 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/elkhart-county