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2017 Porter County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Porter County, IN went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 198K customer-hours (Indiana average 2.5 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 90 Indiana counties and 1528th 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 Porter 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 | March 8, 2017 14:15 | March 10, 2017 11:45 | 1d 21h | 5,901 | 22K |
| 2 | October 16, 2017 12:30 | October 16, 2017 23:15 | 10h 45m | 5,501 | 9,987 |
| 3 | January 10, 2017 16:00 | January 12, 2017 04:30 | 1d 12h | 4,356 | 25K |
| 4 | July 21, 2017 12:30 | July 23, 2017 09:30 | 1d 21h | 3,669 | 18K |
| 5 | August 26, 2017 10:45 | August 26, 2017 23:00 | 12h 15m | 2,854 | 4,277 |
| 6 | April 17, 2017 06:00 | April 17, 2017 06:45 | 45m | 2,456 | 1,842 |
| 7 | March 17, 2017 14:30 | March 17, 2017 19:30 | 5h | 2,161 | 3,144 |
| 8 | July 3, 2017 00:30 | July 3, 2017 08:30 | 8h | 2,097 | 7,282 |
| 9 | May 2, 2017 07:00 | May 2, 2017 11:30 | 4h 30m | 1,908 | 4,366 |
| 10 | October 7, 2017 16:30 | October 8, 2017 09:30 | 17h | 1,616 | 2,572 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 82 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Porter 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jasper County Rural E M C | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 1.06 | 1.6 hrs | 1.06 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kankakee Valley 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 ÷ 84,000 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. Porter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Porter 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/porter-county