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2018 Elkhart County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Elkhart County, IN went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 454K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 90 Indiana counties and 854th 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 Elkhart 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 | September 24, 2018 00:15 | September 24, 2018 07:45 | 7h 30m | 6,794 | 42K |
| 2 | June 5, 2018 11:30 | June 6, 2018 07:00 | 19h 30m | 5,753 | 20K |
| 3 | April 5, 2018 12:15 | April 15, 2018 02:00 | 9d 13h | 3,823 | 16K |
| 4 | July 20, 2018 03:30 | July 22, 2018 04:30 | 2d 1h | 3,631 | 36K |
| 5 | August 29, 2018 05:15 | August 31, 2018 03:00 | 1d 21h | 3,600 | 6,183 |
| 6 | August 6, 2018 20:15 | August 8, 2018 10:45 | 1d 14h | 3,566 | 18K |
| 7 | May 2, 2018 11:30 | May 5, 2018 02:15 | 2d 14h | 3,195 | 61K |
| 8 | August 9, 2018 10:15 | August 10, 2018 20:45 | 1d 10h | 2,766 | 6,104 |
| 9 | February 15, 2018 17:00 | February 16, 2018 12:00 | 19h | 2,095 | 5,892 |
| 10 | September 3, 2018 05:30 | September 5, 2018 03:30 | 1d 22h | 2,015 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 130 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 Elkhart 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 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2014 | 9.8 hrs | 2.23 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 |
| Noble County R E M C | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.70 | 3.0 hrs | 1.70 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lagrange 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 ÷ 70,799 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. Elkhart County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elkhart 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/elkhart-county