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2018 DeKalb County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in DeKalb County, IN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 90 Indiana counties and 1909th 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 DeKalb 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 18:00 | October 22, 2018 03:00 | 1d 9h | 2,818 | 24K |
| 2 | October 15, 2018 19:00 | October 16, 2018 02:45 | 7h 45m | 1,187 | 9,195 |
| 3 | August 10, 2018 00:45 | August 10, 2018 04:45 | 4h | 952 | 2,705 |
| 4 | June 11, 2018 14:15 | June 11, 2018 14:30 | 15m | 787 | 197 |
| 5 | August 15, 2018 06:45 | August 15, 2018 12:15 | 5h 30m | 674 | 3,438 |
| 6 | November 6, 2018 13:30 | November 7, 2018 04:15 | 14h 45m | 529 | 1,048 |
| 7 | March 11, 2018 08:30 | March 11, 2018 12:45 | 4h 15m | 516 | 1,576 |
| 8 | May 29, 2018 20:45 | May 30, 2018 16:15 | 19h 30m | 402 | 1,176 |
| 9 | July 20, 2018 20:15 | July 21, 2018 01:45 | 5h 30m | 330 | 597 |
| 10 | June 22, 2018 09:45 | June 22, 2018 12:30 | 2h 45m | 304 | 535 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 22 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 DeKalb 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 |
| Noble County R E M C | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.70 | 3.0 hrs | 1.70 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Steuben County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Auburn - (IN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Garrett | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 30,185 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. DeKalb County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), DeKalb 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/dekalb-county