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2018 Union County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Union County, IN went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 9,512 customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 90 Indiana counties and 1190th 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 Union 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 13, 2018 18:00 | September 13, 2018 18:45 | 45m | 2,366 | 996 |
| 2 | November 15, 2018 10:00 | November 16, 2018 21:30 | 1d 11h | 354 | 4,929 |
| 3 | July 3, 2018 06:30 | July 3, 2018 11:00 | 4h 30m | 224 | 923 |
| 4 | November 6, 2018 09:45 | November 6, 2018 11:30 | 1h 45m | 158 | 188 |
| 5 | August 8, 2018 17:45 | August 8, 2018 18:30 | 45m | 157 | 118 |
| 6 | November 8, 2018 03:15 | November 8, 2018 05:45 | 2h 30m | 157 | 278 |
| 7 | December 28, 2018 00:30 | December 28, 2018 04:15 | 3h 45m | 150 | 307 |
| 8 | January 29, 2018 13:30 | January 29, 2018 15:45 | 2h 15m | 103 | 136 |
| 9 | June 8, 2018 21:00 | June 9, 2018 00:45 | 3h 45m | 103 | 233 |
| 10 | October 23, 2018 22:45 | October 24, 2018 00:15 | 1h 30m | 84 | 126 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 9 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 Union 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 |
| Whitewater Valley Rural EMC | 2018 | 9.2 hrs | 1.83 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 |
| 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 ÷ 2,229 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county