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2018 Putnam County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Putnam County, IN went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 90 Indiana counties and 2092nd 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 Putnam 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 17:45 | October 22, 2018 21:30 | 2d 3h | 1,252 | 6,850 |
| 2 | June 10, 2018 21:00 | June 12, 2018 06:30 | 1d 9h | 840 | 8,606 |
| 3 | October 31, 2018 10:30 | October 31, 2018 13:15 | 2h 45m | 262 | 459 |
| 4 | January 12, 2018 06:15 | January 12, 2018 12:15 | 6h | 238 | 776 |
| 5 | October 28, 2018 14:15 | October 29, 2018 10:45 | 20h 30m | 225 | 1,530 |
| 6 | September 25, 2018 01:00 | September 25, 2018 04:15 | 3h 15m | 203 | 660 |
| 7 | December 18, 2018 14:30 | December 18, 2018 15:30 | 1h | 201 | 53 |
| 8 | November 26, 2018 02:00 | November 26, 2018 04:45 | 2h 45m | 184 | 140 |
| 9 | January 2, 2018 10:45 | January 2, 2018 17:30 | 6h 45m | 180 | 442 |
| 10 | July 4, 2018 06:00 | July 4, 2018 18:15 | 12h 15m | 167 | 302 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 14 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Putnam 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 |
| AES Indiana | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.13 | 67 min | 0.95 |
| Utilities Dist-Western IN REMC | 2018 | 7.1 hrs | 2.80 | 5.1 hrs | 2.43 |
| South Central Indiana REMC | 2018 | 10.1 hrs | 4.22 | 6.0 hrs | 3.61 |
| Parke County Rural E M C | 2018 | 14.2 hrs | 4.16 | 6.2 hrs | 1.82 |
| Hendricks County Rural E M C | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 1.47 | 80 min | 1.01 |
| Town of Bainbridge - (IN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,139 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county