County annual report · FIPS 18091
2017 LaPorte County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in LaPorte County, IN went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 187K customer-hours (Indiana average 2.5 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 90 Indiana counties and 1276th 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 LaPorte 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 17, 2017 18:45 | May 19, 2017 10:30 | 1d 15h | 2,143 | 6,893 |
| 2 | December 8, 2017 11:45 | December 9, 2017 01:00 | 13h 15m | 2,023 | 16K |
| 3 | October 30, 2017 10:00 | October 31, 2017 09:30 | 23h 30m | 2,017 | 12K |
| 4 | January 10, 2017 15:15 | January 12, 2017 07:30 | 1d 16h | 1,994 | 13K |
| 5 | July 3, 2017 00:15 | July 3, 2017 19:45 | 19h 30m | 1,858 | 4,998 |
| 6 | October 7, 2017 15:45 | October 8, 2017 13:15 | 21h 30m | 1,475 | 4,132 |
| 7 | August 24, 2017 12:00 | August 24, 2017 22:15 | 10h 15m | 1,324 | 1,800 |
| 8 | August 3, 2017 21:45 | August 5, 2017 01:15 | 1d 3h | 1,276 | 5,235 |
| 9 | February 4, 2017 23:30 | February 5, 2017 00:30 | 1h | 1,168 | 1,168 |
| 10 | October 14, 2017 15:00 | October 16, 2017 21:30 | 2d 6h | 1,165 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 70 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 LaPorte 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 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kankakee Valley Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Kingsford Heights | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 58,242 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. LaPorte County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), LaPorte 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/laporte-county