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2019 Wells County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wells County, IN went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.1 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 91 Indiana counties and 1768th 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 Wells 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 23, 2019 09:45 | May 24, 2019 17:00 | 1d 7h | 1,234 | 6,472 |
| 2 | May 9, 2019 17:30 | May 9, 2019 21:30 | 4h | 946 | 3,784 |
| 3 | August 11, 2019 03:15 | August 11, 2019 08:30 | 5h 15m | 792 | 4,158 |
| 4 | November 5, 2019 21:45 | November 5, 2019 22:00 | 15m | 778 | 195 |
| 5 | January 1, 2019 01:30 | January 2, 2019 00:00 | 22h 30m | 541 | 5,208 |
| 6 | November 24, 2019 00:00 | November 24, 2019 01:15 | 1h 15m | 499 | 624 |
| 7 | February 24, 2019 11:45 | February 25, 2019 15:45 | 1d 4h | 492 | 2,295 |
| 8 | May 28, 2019 01:30 | May 29, 2019 20:15 | 1d 18h | 487 | 12K |
| 9 | August 8, 2019 21:00 | August 9, 2019 05:00 | 8h | 472 | 2,116 |
| 10 | April 17, 2019 22:15 | April 17, 2019 23:00 | 45m | 264 | 198 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 21 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 Wells 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 82% of Indiana's customers in 2019; 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, 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/wells-county