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2018 Blackford County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Blackford County, IN went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 90 Indiana counties and 1469th 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 Blackford 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 | April 4, 2018 07:30 | April 4, 2018 17:00 | 9h 30m | 2,443 | 4,386 |
| 2 | July 22, 2018 18:00 | July 22, 2018 20:15 | 2h 15m | 1,992 | 4,481 |
| 3 | April 4, 2018 22:15 | April 4, 2018 22:45 | 30m | 1,540 | 492 |
| 4 | July 20, 2018 19:00 | July 20, 2018 23:30 | 4h 30m | 906 | 3,284 |
| 5 | August 21, 2018 17:15 | August 21, 2018 23:45 | 6h 30m | 897 | 1,972 |
| 6 | October 13, 2018 19:45 | October 13, 2018 21:15 | 1h 30m | 442 | 554 |
| 7 | October 23, 2018 14:00 | October 23, 2018 15:15 | 1h 15m | 295 | 369 |
| 8 | August 6, 2018 22:30 | August 7, 2018 17:15 | 18h 45m | 210 | 1,459 |
| 9 | September 7, 2018 22:45 | September 8, 2018 00:45 | 2h | 202 | 297 |
| 10 | June 14, 2018 17:00 | June 14, 2018 18:00 | 1h | 136 | 136 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 13 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Blackford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2018 | 7.3 hrs | 1.53 | 4.1 hrs | 1.30 |
| Jay 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 ÷ 7,872 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. Blackford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blackford 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/blackford-county