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2017 Vigo County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Vigo County, IN went without power for an average of 12.4 hours, a total of 640K customer-hours (Indiana average 2.5 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 90 Indiana counties and 436th 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 Vigo 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 | July 12, 2017 20:45 | July 15, 2017 18:45 | 2d 22h | 18,968 | 334K |
| 2 | May 11, 2017 04:00 | May 15, 2017 23:45 | 4d 19h | 14,266 | 138K |
| 3 | January 24, 2017 19:15 | January 24, 2017 22:00 | 2h 45m | 4,937 | 3,710 |
| 4 | June 14, 2017 21:30 | June 16, 2017 16:15 | 1d 18h | 4,121 | 15K |
| 5 | July 11, 2017 13:15 | July 11, 2017 21:15 | 8h | 3,191 | 12K |
| 6 | June 29, 2017 12:30 | June 30, 2017 07:15 | 18h 45m | 3,001 | 7,186 |
| 7 | March 7, 2017 08:30 | March 7, 2017 20:45 | 12h 15m | 1,883 | 2,992 |
| 8 | April 28, 2017 21:30 | April 30, 2017 20:45 | 1d 23h | 1,859 | 17K |
| 9 | August 16, 2017 07:15 | August 16, 2017 09:00 | 1h 45m | 1,800 | 1,802 |
| 10 | November 27, 2017 14:15 | November 28, 2017 00:30 | 10h 15m | 1,719 | 1,131 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 87 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Vigo 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 |
| Utilities Dist-Western IN REMC | 2017 | 7.5 hrs | 2.48 | 5.6 hrs | 2.22 |
| Western Indiana Energy REMC | 2017 | 8.1 hrs | 2.08 | 3.5 hrs | 1.52 |
| Parke County Rural E M C | 2017 | 7.1 hrs | 3.33 | 7.1 hrs | 3.33 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 51,609 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. Vigo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vigo 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/vigo-county