County annual report · FIPS 18091
2020 LaPorte County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in LaPorte County, IN went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 333K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1288th 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 LaPorte 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 | May 29, 2020 18:45 | May 29, 2020 23:15 | 4h 30m | 6,085 | 1,866 |
| 2 | August 10, 2020 18:00 | August 13, 2020 17:30 | 2d 23h | 5,209 | 92K |
| 3 | June 27, 2020 00:45 | June 28, 2020 10:30 | 1d 9h | 5,050 | 39K |
| 4 | November 15, 2020 12:45 | November 16, 2020 21:45 | 1d 9h | 2,867 | 21K |
| 5 | November 10, 2020 11:00 | November 12, 2020 02:45 | 1d 15h | 2,627 | 14K |
| 6 | June 9, 2020 11:30 | June 12, 2020 17:15 | 3d 5h | 2,587 | 26K |
| 7 | January 15, 2020 11:15 | January 15, 2020 11:45 | 30m | 2,038 | 1,019 |
| 8 | October 22, 2020 05:30 | October 23, 2020 06:15 | 1d | 1,978 | 7,035 |
| 9 | July 26, 2020 06:15 | July 27, 2020 08:45 | 1d 2h | 1,732 | 8,218 |
| 10 | June 24, 2020 20:00 | June 25, 2020 02:15 | 6h 15m | 1,567 | 2,431 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 95 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 LaPorte 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 |
| Kankakee Valley Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Kingsford Heights | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 58,242 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. LaPorte County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), LaPorte 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/laporte-county