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2017 Wells County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wells County, IN went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Indiana average 2.5 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 90 Indiana counties and 1590th 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 Wells 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 20:45 | 1d 2h | 1,276 | 15K |
| 2 | December 11, 2017 23:45 | December 12, 2017 04:45 | 5h | 792 | 2,385 |
| 3 | June 23, 2017 02:15 | June 23, 2017 02:30 | 15m | 482 | 121 |
| 4 | August 27, 2017 17:45 | August 28, 2017 09:15 | 15h 30m | 442 | 2,637 |
| 5 | April 10, 2017 21:30 | April 11, 2017 03:45 | 6h 15m | 327 | 940 |
| 6 | August 21, 2017 20:30 | August 22, 2017 01:15 | 4h 45m | 300 | 979 |
| 7 | July 15, 2017 14:15 | July 15, 2017 18:30 | 4h 15m | 267 | 680 |
| 8 | October 27, 2017 01:30 | October 27, 2017 15:00 | 13h 30m | 264 | 1,233 |
| 9 | January 10, 2017 22:45 | January 11, 2017 17:45 | 19h | 239 | 3,594 |
| 10 | December 2, 2017 10:15 | December 2, 2017 10:30 | 15m | 222 | 56 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 21 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Wells 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 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.56 | 3.9 hrs | 1.36 |
| Heartland REMC | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jay County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bluffton - (IN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,366 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. Wells County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wells 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/wells-county