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2020 Adams County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Adams County, IN went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 2264th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with IN, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Indiana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 26, 2020 18:45 | February 26, 2020 19:45 | 1h | 3,836 | 3,834 |
| 2 | October 18, 2020 13:45 | October 18, 2020 14:00 | 15m | 2,140 | 535 |
| 3 | August 11, 2020 00:15 | August 11, 2020 19:15 | 19h | 1,323 | 5,959 |
| 4 | October 6, 2020 22:30 | October 6, 2020 23:15 | 45m | 1,223 | 917 |
| 5 | October 23, 2020 18:15 | October 24, 2020 17:15 | 23h | 795 | 883 |
| 6 | April 30, 2020 16:15 | April 30, 2020 19:00 | 2h 45m | 751 | 1,064 |
| 7 | January 13, 2020 12:00 | January 13, 2020 13:30 | 1h 30m | 445 | 448 |
| 8 | October 3, 2020 12:15 | October 3, 2020 17:30 | 5h 15m | 406 | 544 |
| 9 | May 12, 2020 23:30 | May 13, 2020 09:00 | 9h 30m | 379 | 507 |
| 10 | July 18, 2020 16:30 | July 18, 2020 21:45 | 5h 15m | 299 | 165 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 17 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Adams County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 7.9 hrs | 1.27 | 3.3 hrs | 1.01 |
| Heartland REMC | - | - | - | - | - |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 86% of Indiana's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,012 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. Adams County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Adams County, IN annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/indiana/adams-county