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2020 Blackford County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Blackford County, IN went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 92 Indiana counties and 2127th 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 Blackford 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 | September 21, 2020 12:30 | September 21, 2020 15:30 | 3h | 1,997 | 5,990 |
| 2 | May 30, 2020 23:00 | May 31, 2020 02:00 | 3h | 509 | 1,401 |
| 3 | May 10, 2020 22:30 | May 11, 2020 01:30 | 3h | 489 | 266 |
| 4 | September 3, 2020 14:45 | September 3, 2020 18:00 | 3h 15m | 432 | 653 |
| 5 | December 8, 2020 20:15 | December 8, 2020 20:45 | 30m | 432 | 216 |
| 6 | December 13, 2020 12:00 | December 13, 2020 20:15 | 8h 15m | 288 | 841 |
| 7 | July 29, 2020 22:00 | July 30, 2020 01:00 | 3h | 219 | 442 |
| 8 | July 22, 2020 15:45 | July 22, 2020 18:00 | 2h 15m | 196 | 441 |
| 9 | January 20, 2020 20:00 | January 20, 2020 23:15 | 3h 15m | 132 | 377 |
| 10 | July 21, 2020 20:00 | July 22, 2020 15:00 | 19h | 117 | 1,653 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 10 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 Blackford 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 |
| 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 ÷ 7,872 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. Blackford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blackford 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/blackford-county