County annual report · FIPS 18091
2018 LaPorte County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in LaPorte County, IN went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 275K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 90 Indiana counties and 1103rd 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 LaPorte 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 | November 26, 2018 03:30 | November 29, 2018 07:00 | 3d 3h | 4,818 | 43K |
| 2 | October 20, 2018 13:30 | October 23, 2018 21:30 | 3d 8h | 3,464 | 58K |
| 3 | July 1, 2018 18:45 | July 3, 2018 05:45 | 1d 11h | 2,378 | 28K |
| 4 | September 25, 2018 21:30 | September 28, 2018 03:00 | 2d 5h | 1,806 | 13K |
| 5 | May 8, 2018 02:00 | May 8, 2018 05:15 | 3h 15m | 1,509 | 2,298 |
| 6 | July 4, 2018 18:45 | July 6, 2018 00:45 | 1d 6h | 1,480 | 5,449 |
| 7 | January 26, 2018 01:45 | January 26, 2018 09:30 | 7h 45m | 1,402 | 1,645 |
| 8 | November 13, 2018 10:00 | November 13, 2018 21:00 | 11h | 1,248 | 3,144 |
| 9 | August 20, 2018 13:15 | August 22, 2018 07:30 | 1d 18h | 1,245 | 4,786 |
| 10 | December 1, 2018 08:45 | December 2, 2018 23:15 | 1d 14h | 1,227 | 5,002 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 91 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 LaPorte 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 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kankakee Valley Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Kingsford Heights | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 58,242 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. LaPorte County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), LaPorte 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/laporte-county