County annual report · FIPS 18007
2020 Benton County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Benton County, IN went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1460th 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 Benton 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 | December 1, 2020 06:15 | December 1, 2020 11:00 | 4h 45m | 1,413 | 1,576 |
| 2 | December 11, 2020 06:15 | December 11, 2020 10:30 | 4h 15m | 1,413 | 5,653 |
| 3 | August 29, 2020 08:15 | August 29, 2020 21:45 | 13h 30m | 583 | 1,191 |
| 4 | July 16, 2020 06:15 | July 16, 2020 10:15 | 4h | 462 | 1,848 |
| 5 | June 4, 2020 03:45 | June 4, 2020 13:45 | 10h | 365 | 793 |
| 6 | August 11, 2020 06:45 | August 14, 2020 01:15 | 2d 18h | 236 | 5,857 |
| 7 | July 28, 2020 07:45 | July 28, 2020 11:00 | 3h 15m | 231 | 693 |
| 8 | June 10, 2020 18:30 | June 11, 2020 11:00 | 16h 30m | 86 | 257 |
| 9 | June 9, 2020 21:15 | June 9, 2020 23:45 | 2h 30m | 84 | 210 |
| 10 | August 11, 2020 02:15 | August 11, 2020 05:15 | 3h | 54 | 155 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 7 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Benton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Indiana, LLC | 2020 | 4.6 hrs | 1.25 | 2.0 hrs | 0.95 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | 2020 | 7.9 hrs | 1.26 | 2.3 hrs | 0.90 |
| Carroll-White REMC | 2020 | 10.6 hrs | - | 4.1 hrs | - |
| Tipmont Rural Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 2.10 | 77 min | 1.16 |
| Warren County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Newton 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 ÷ 4,132 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton 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/benton-county