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2019 Elkhart County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Elkhart County, IN went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 491K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.1 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 91 Indiana counties and 807th 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 Elkhart 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 | May 14, 2019 07:45 | May 15, 2019 03:30 | 19h 45m | 9,643 | 30K |
| 2 | July 11, 2019 01:45 | July 12, 2019 20:30 | 1d 18h | 8,384 | 80K |
| 3 | May 23, 2019 08:45 | May 26, 2019 01:15 | 2d 16h | 7,634 | 58K |
| 4 | February 12, 2019 03:45 | February 14, 2019 04:00 | 2d | 7,459 | 73K |
| 5 | April 3, 2019 12:15 | April 3, 2019 22:15 | 10h | 3,839 | 11K |
| 6 | May 12, 2019 10:15 | May 12, 2019 10:45 | 30m | 3,607 | 1,740 |
| 7 | November 27, 2019 12:00 | November 28, 2019 20:00 | 1d 8h | 3,297 | 28K |
| 8 | June 26, 2019 17:30 | June 28, 2019 05:30 | 1d 12h | 3,180 | 20K |
| 9 | April 12, 2019 08:45 | April 13, 2019 03:45 | 19h | 3,137 | 9,099 |
| 10 | November 3, 2019 11:15 | November 3, 2019 11:45 | 30m | 2,881 | 1,441 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 96 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Elkhart 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 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2014 | 9.8 hrs | 2.23 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 |
| Noble County R E M C | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.70 | 3.0 hrs | 1.70 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lagrange 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 ÷ 70,799 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. Elkhart County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elkhart 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/elkhart-county