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2019 Blackford County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Blackford County, IN went without power for an average of 7.2 hours, a total of 56K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.1 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 91 Indiana counties and 788th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with IN, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Indiana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Blackford County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 20, 2019 20:30 | August 21, 2019 01:15 | 4h 45m | 2,038 | 6,128 |
| 2 | August 27, 2019 10:30 | August 27, 2019 20:00 | 9h 30m | 1,618 | 6,579 |
| 3 | January 1, 2019 01:00 | January 2, 2019 00:45 | 23h 45m | 1,533 | 13K |
| 4 | October 21, 2019 23:00 | October 22, 2019 00:45 | 1h 45m | 884 | 1,546 |
| 5 | May 28, 2019 01:30 | May 29, 2019 20:15 | 1d 18h | 750 | 10K |
| 6 | January 31, 2019 00:15 | January 31, 2019 04:15 | 4h | 443 | 1,320 |
| 7 | March 25, 2019 03:00 | March 25, 2019 06:15 | 3h 15m | 434 | 1,310 |
| 8 | May 26, 2019 09:45 | May 26, 2019 15:15 | 5h 30m | 397 | 745 |
| 9 | April 17, 2019 22:00 | April 17, 2019 23:45 | 1h 45m | 391 | 301 |
| 10 | September 19, 2019 08:45 | September 19, 2019 15:15 | 6h 30m | 338 | 1,592 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 22 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Blackford County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Jay County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 82% of Indiana's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,872 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. Blackford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blackford County, IN annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/indiana/blackford-county