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2020 Knox County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Knox County, IN went without power for an average of 30.2 hours, a total of 479K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 92 Indiana counties and 277th 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 Knox 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 | April 9, 2020 01:30 | April 12, 2020 08:15 | 3d 6h | 10,907 | 464K |
| 2 | November 2, 2020 06:15 | November 2, 2020 10:15 | 4h | 953 | 1,070 |
| 3 | July 12, 2020 05:30 | July 12, 2020 16:45 | 11h 15m | 802 | 3,135 |
| 4 | November 18, 2020 06:15 | November 18, 2020 06:30 | 15m | 713 | 178 |
| 5 | May 14, 2020 17:45 | May 14, 2020 19:15 | 1h 30m | 712 | 359 |
| 6 | May 17, 2020 02:30 | May 17, 2020 04:30 | 2h | 586 | 1,170 |
| 7 | November 7, 2020 21:45 | November 7, 2020 22:45 | 1h | 400 | 399 |
| 8 | July 31, 2020 14:45 | July 31, 2020 16:30 | 1h 45m | 371 | 649 |
| 9 | April 18, 2020 23:00 | April 19, 2020 03:45 | 4h 45m | 362 | 1,535 |
| 10 | November 13, 2020 23:30 | November 14, 2020 03:15 | 3h 45m | 362 | 1,176 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 18 reached 100+ customers, 1 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Knox 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 |
| AES Indiana | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 1.16 | 73 min | 0.93 |
| Utilities Dist-Western IN REMC | 2020 | 8.9 hrs | 2.52 | 5.9 hrs | 2.15 |
| Western Indiana Energy REMC | 2020 | 5.9 hrs | 2.30 | 4.0 hrs | 2.07 |
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 ÷ 15,843 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. Knox County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knox 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/knox-county