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2018 Howard County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Howard County, IN went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 127K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 90 Indiana counties and 1488th 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 Howard 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 19, 2018 15:15 | September 19, 2018 23:45 | 8h 30m | 11,752 | 14K |
| 2 | November 27, 2018 01:00 | November 27, 2018 01:15 | 15m | 7,662 | 1,916 |
| 3 | September 14, 2018 14:00 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 7h 45m | 5,041 | 3,968 |
| 4 | October 27, 2018 13:15 | October 27, 2018 17:00 | 3h 45m | 4,246 | 6,137 |
| 5 | July 20, 2018 18:45 | July 21, 2018 04:00 | 9h 15m | 3,887 | 18K |
| 6 | October 12, 2018 19:00 | October 12, 2018 21:00 | 2h | 2,459 | 4,303 |
| 7 | November 26, 2018 14:45 | November 26, 2018 17:30 | 2h 45m | 2,386 | 3,182 |
| 8 | April 10, 2018 13:15 | April 10, 2018 13:30 | 15m | 2,284 | 571 |
| 9 | April 10, 2018 23:15 | April 11, 2018 09:45 | 10h 30m | 2,199 | 1,895 |
| 10 | September 9, 2018 09:00 | September 9, 2018 22:45 | 13h 45m | 2,017 | 2,381 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 65 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Howard 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 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2018 | 7.3 hrs | 1.53 | 4.1 hrs | 1.30 |
| Carroll-White REMC | 2018 | 5.4 hrs | - | 5.4 hrs | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 41,367 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county