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2019 St. Joseph County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in St. Joseph County, IN went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 912K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.1 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 91 Indiana counties and 566th 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 St. Joseph 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 | September 27, 2019 17:15 | October 1, 2019 05:45 | 3d 12h | 16,266 | 314K |
| 2 | February 12, 2019 07:15 | February 14, 2019 00:00 | 1d 16h | 10,161 | 90K |
| 3 | February 14, 2019 02:30 | February 15, 2019 09:15 | 1d 6h | 6,352 | 34K |
| 4 | May 23, 2019 08:15 | May 25, 2019 02:00 | 1d 17h | 4,709 | 27K |
| 5 | May 22, 2019 19:00 | May 23, 2019 05:30 | 10h 30m | 3,986 | 5,993 |
| 6 | May 14, 2019 10:45 | May 14, 2019 15:00 | 4h 15m | 3,463 | 8,402 |
| 7 | December 17, 2019 15:45 | December 17, 2019 23:15 | 7h 30m | 3,175 | 9,348 |
| 8 | November 27, 2019 11:15 | November 28, 2019 18:00 | 1d 6h | 2,857 | 14K |
| 9 | October 21, 2019 11:45 | October 22, 2019 05:30 | 17h 45m | 2,634 | 10K |
| 10 | April 9, 2019 08:45 | April 9, 2019 19:15 | 10h 30m | 2,615 | 8,549 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 130 reached 100+ customers, 37 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 St. Joseph 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 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kankakee Valley Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mishawaka | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of New Carlisle- (IN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Walkerton - (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 82% of Indiana's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 94,899 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. St. Joseph County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Joseph 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/st-joseph-county