County annual report · FIPS 18007
2018 Benton County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Benton County, IN went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 90 Indiana counties and 1387th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with IN, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Indiana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 20, 2018 18:45 | October 24, 2018 16:00 | 3d 21h | 1,556 | 9,532 |
| 2 | January 26, 2018 14:15 | January 26, 2018 15:30 | 1h 15m | 468 | 585 |
| 3 | August 20, 2018 13:30 | August 20, 2018 15:00 | 1h 30m | 164 | 82 |
| 4 | May 19, 2018 07:00 | May 19, 2018 10:30 | 3h 30m | 160 | 372 |
| 5 | October 6, 2018 19:15 | October 7, 2018 01:00 | 5h 45m | 119 | 333 |
| 6 | February 22, 2018 12:30 | February 22, 2018 17:00 | 4h 30m | 111 | 497 |
| 7 | May 29, 2018 00:45 | May 29, 2018 03:30 | 2h 45m | 109 | 111 |
| 8 | May 30, 2018 18:00 | May 30, 2018 20:45 | 2h 45m | 73 | 104 |
| 9 | February 25, 2018 11:45 | February 25, 2018 13:45 | 2h | 65 | 130 |
| 10 | August 16, 2018 07:15 | August 16, 2018 09:45 | 2h 30m | 64 | 160 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 7 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 6.1 hrs | 1.45 | 2.6 hrs | 1.06 |
| Carroll-White REMC | 2018 | 5.4 hrs | - | 5.4 hrs | - |
| Tipmont Rural Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 2.8 hrs | 1.94 | 82 min | 1.32 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Warren County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Newton 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 79% of Indiana's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,132 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, IN annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/indiana/benton-county