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2018 Wells County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wells County, IN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 9,044 customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 90 Indiana counties and 2493rd 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 Wells 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 9, 2018 17:15 | October 9, 2018 20:00 | 2h 45m | 628 | 1,727 |
| 2 | April 4, 2018 22:15 | April 4, 2018 22:45 | 30m | 485 | 176 |
| 3 | March 7, 2018 21:45 | March 7, 2018 22:00 | 15m | 306 | 77 |
| 4 | April 4, 2018 12:15 | April 4, 2018 13:45 | 1h 30m | 219 | 123 |
| 5 | July 21, 2018 20:45 | July 21, 2018 22:45 | 2h | 217 | 221 |
| 6 | October 15, 2018 14:45 | October 15, 2018 19:15 | 4h 30m | 198 | 290 |
| 7 | October 18, 2018 23:30 | October 19, 2018 04:45 | 5h 15m | 191 | 129 |
| 8 | June 26, 2018 17:15 | June 26, 2018 21:15 | 4h | 182 | 324 |
| 9 | January 12, 2018 16:00 | January 12, 2018 16:45 | 45m | 151 | 113 |
| 10 | May 31, 2018 20:00 | May 31, 2018 22:00 | 2h | 132 | 232 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 14 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Wells 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 |
| Heartland REMC | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jay County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bluffton - (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 ÷ 17,366 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. Wells County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wells 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/wells-county