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2020 Porter County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Porter County, IN went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 582K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1098th 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 Porter 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 11, 2020 06:45 | August 15, 2020 21:45 | 4d 15h | 12,712 | 277K |
| 2 | August 11, 2020 02:15 | August 11, 2020 05:15 | 3h | 9,947 | 24K |
| 3 | June 26, 2020 19:15 | June 28, 2020 23:45 | 2d 4h | 5,628 | 42K |
| 4 | October 26, 2020 14:45 | December 6, 2020 06:30 | 40d 15h | 5,484 | 52K |
| 5 | August 10, 2020 23:30 | August 11, 2020 00:30 | 1h | 4,557 | 2,525 |
| 6 | June 9, 2020 00:00 | June 12, 2020 05:15 | 3d 5h | 4,212 | 27K |
| 7 | October 14, 2020 06:45 | October 14, 2020 18:15 | 11h 30m | 3,800 | 12K |
| 8 | September 25, 2020 19:30 | September 26, 2020 10:15 | 14h 45m | 3,162 | 8,887 |
| 9 | July 1, 2020 08:30 | July 1, 2020 11:00 | 2h 30m | 1,900 | 3,326 |
| 10 | July 18, 2020 04:00 | July 18, 2020 06:45 | 2h 45m | 1,691 | 3,392 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 81 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 Porter 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 |
| Kankakee Valley 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 ÷ 84,000 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. Porter County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Porter 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/porter-county