County annual report · FIPS 18041
2020 Fayette County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Fayette County, IN went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 931st 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 Fayette 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 | July 27, 2020 13:45 | July 28, 2020 03:45 | 14h | 5,068 | 6,331 |
| 2 | August 11, 2020 17:15 | August 11, 2020 18:45 | 1h 30m | 2,755 | 2,159 |
| 3 | August 25, 2020 21:00 | August 26, 2020 02:00 | 5h | 2,753 | 3,094 |
| 4 | July 11, 2020 21:45 | July 13, 2020 21:45 | 2d | 2,108 | 32K |
| 5 | April 9, 2020 02:00 | April 11, 2020 09:15 | 2d 7h | 789 | 10K |
| 6 | February 10, 2020 12:30 | February 10, 2020 14:45 | 2h 15m | 638 | 1,117 |
| 7 | November 24, 2020 13:15 | November 24, 2020 15:45 | 2h 30m | 425 | 1,063 |
| 8 | August 13, 2020 22:00 | August 15, 2020 19:45 | 1d 21h | 282 | 539 |
| 9 | January 18, 2020 18:15 | January 19, 2020 05:30 | 11h 15m | 279 | 625 |
| 10 | July 19, 2020 20:30 | July 20, 2020 08:30 | 12h | 266 | 1,256 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 24 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 Fayette 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 |
| Henry County Rural E M C | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 2.35 | 5.9 hrs | 2.35 |
| Whitewater Valley Rural EMC | 2018 | 9.2 hrs | 1.83 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 |
| RushShelby Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,302 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county