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2020 Putnam County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Putnam County, IN went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 77K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1494th 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 Putnam 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 | March 18, 2020 14:00 | March 18, 2020 16:00 | 2h | 2,445 | 3,297 |
| 2 | July 11, 2020 21:15 | July 13, 2020 07:30 | 1d 10h | 2,372 | 9,372 |
| 3 | April 9, 2020 00:30 | April 10, 2020 23:00 | 1d 22h | 2,177 | 21K |
| 4 | August 10, 2020 23:15 | August 12, 2020 23:45 | 2d | 908 | 11K |
| 5 | July 19, 2020 19:15 | July 20, 2020 17:15 | 22h | 639 | 2,551 |
| 6 | November 15, 2020 06:45 | November 17, 2020 19:30 | 2d 12h | 625 | 2,146 |
| 7 | March 20, 2020 06:00 | March 20, 2020 20:00 | 14h | 531 | 2,035 |
| 8 | December 22, 2020 14:45 | December 22, 2020 17:15 | 2h 30m | 522 | 1,175 |
| 9 | December 12, 2020 23:00 | December 13, 2020 05:15 | 6h 15m | 488 | 2,332 |
| 10 | January 3, 2020 04:45 | January 3, 2020 12:45 | 8h | 454 | 1,427 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 41 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Putnam 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 |
| South Central Indiana REMC | 2020 | 10.4 hrs | 4.04 | 4.8 hrs | 2.98 |
| Parke County Rural E M C | 2018 | 14.2 hrs | 4.16 | 6.2 hrs | 1.82 |
| Hendricks County Rural E M C | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 1.56 | 49 min | 0.83 |
| Town of Bainbridge - (IN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,139 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county