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2020 Howard County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Howard County, IN went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 255K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1210th 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 Howard 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 23:15 | August 13, 2020 17:15 | 2d 18h | 8,622 | 135K |
| 2 | July 8, 2020 20:30 | July 10, 2020 00:30 | 1d 4h | 8,470 | 32K |
| 3 | May 17, 2020 11:00 | May 17, 2020 13:30 | 2h 30m | 4,436 | 8,336 |
| 4 | April 8, 2020 23:15 | April 9, 2020 10:45 | 11h 30m | 3,721 | 8,669 |
| 5 | July 21, 2020 19:15 | July 22, 2020 09:00 | 13h 45m | 3,384 | 9,691 |
| 6 | May 19, 2020 10:15 | May 19, 2020 14:45 | 4h 30m | 2,471 | 4,087 |
| 7 | December 17, 2020 05:45 | December 17, 2020 06:30 | 45m | 2,178 | 1,634 |
| 8 | November 1, 2020 13:30 | November 1, 2020 17:45 | 4h 15m | 2,081 | 4,360 |
| 9 | July 22, 2020 12:30 | July 22, 2020 14:00 | 1h 30m | 1,750 | 1,313 |
| 10 | August 26, 2020 17:45 | August 26, 2020 19:45 | 2h | 1,367 | 691 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 63 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Howard 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 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2020 | 7.9 hrs | 1.27 | 3.3 hrs | 1.01 |
| Carroll-White REMC | 2020 | 10.6 hrs | - | 4.1 hrs | - |
| Duke 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 ÷ 41,367 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county