County annual report · FIPS 18039
2020 Elkhart County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Elkhart County, IN went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 364K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1369th 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 Elkhart 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 | August 10, 2020 02:45 | August 16, 2020 01:00 | 5d 22h | 7,824 | 127K |
| 2 | March 4, 2020 10:45 | March 4, 2020 12:00 | 1h 15m | 3,098 | 1,509 |
| 3 | June 27, 2020 02:15 | June 28, 2020 05:15 | 1d 3h | 2,981 | 19K |
| 4 | June 9, 2020 08:00 | June 12, 2020 08:15 | 3d | 2,691 | 41K |
| 5 | December 15, 2020 14:00 | December 16, 2020 15:15 | 1d 1h | 2,163 | 9,660 |
| 6 | September 8, 2020 06:30 | September 9, 2020 06:45 | 1d | 1,774 | 10K |
| 7 | March 29, 2020 12:30 | March 30, 2020 18:45 | 1d 6h | 1,738 | 7,159 |
| 8 | January 25, 2020 22:00 | January 26, 2020 06:45 | 8h 45m | 1,716 | 4,792 |
| 9 | May 12, 2020 04:45 | May 12, 2020 09:15 | 4h 30m | 1,701 | 2,354 |
| 10 | January 11, 2020 09:45 | January 12, 2020 04:00 | 18h 15m | 1,604 | 9,620 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 100 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Elkhart 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 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | 2020 | 7.9 hrs | 1.26 | 2.3 hrs | 0.90 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2014 | 9.8 hrs | 2.23 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 |
| Noble County R E M C | 2020 | 3.1 hrs | 1.69 | 2.1 hrs | 1.45 |
| Marshall County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lagrange 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 ÷ 70,799 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. Elkhart County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elkhart 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/elkhart-county