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2020 Newton County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Newton County, IN went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 92 Indiana counties and 2202nd 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 Newton 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 23:30 | August 11, 2020 00:30 | 1h | 727 | 545 |
| 2 | August 10, 2020 21:30 | August 10, 2020 22:45 | 1h 15m | 719 | 183 |
| 3 | August 11, 2020 06:45 | August 14, 2020 03:00 | 2d 20h | 658 | 6,720 |
| 4 | March 27, 2020 14:30 | March 27, 2020 15:30 | 1h | 569 | 143 |
| 5 | March 30, 2020 13:00 | March 30, 2020 16:00 | 3h | 511 | 1,156 |
| 6 | April 29, 2020 02:00 | April 29, 2020 04:45 | 2h 45m | 201 | 553 |
| 7 | January 23, 2020 19:30 | January 23, 2020 20:00 | 30m | 150 | 75 |
| 8 | August 11, 2020 02:15 | August 11, 2020 05:15 | 3h | 147 | 200 |
| 9 | March 23, 2020 14:45 | March 23, 2020 17:30 | 2h 45m | 135 | 298 |
| 10 | November 25, 2020 14:30 | November 25, 2020 17:45 | 3h 15m | 114 | 210 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 11 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Newton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | 2020 | 7.9 hrs | 1.26 | 2.3 hrs | 0.90 |
| Jasper County Rural E M C | 2020 | 2.9 hrs | 2.92 | 1.8 hrs | 1.86 |
| Newton 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 ÷ 6,445 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county