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2020 Spencer County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Spencer County, IN went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1717th 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 Spencer 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 | January 21, 2020 19:00 | January 21, 2020 19:30 | 30m | 8,205 | 3,998 |
| 2 | March 29, 2020 01:45 | March 30, 2020 15:15 | 1d 13h | 3,157 | 18K |
| 3 | February 7, 2020 03:00 | February 7, 2020 04:45 | 1h 45m | 2,687 | 4,702 |
| 4 | April 29, 2020 13:45 | April 29, 2020 16:30 | 2h 45m | 1,529 | 384 |
| 5 | May 13, 2020 22:30 | May 14, 2020 00:30 | 2h | 1,313 | 1,391 |
| 6 | May 18, 2020 09:45 | May 18, 2020 14:15 | 4h 30m | 505 | 394 |
| 7 | May 1, 2020 21:00 | May 1, 2020 22:00 | 1h | 445 | 132 |
| 8 | January 11, 2020 14:45 | January 11, 2020 20:00 | 5h 15m | 353 | 1,472 |
| 9 | June 9, 2020 21:15 | June 10, 2020 01:45 | 4h 30m | 154 | 439 |
| 10 | July 27, 2020 20:00 | July 27, 2020 21:45 | 1h 45m | 152 | 115 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 19 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Spencer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Indiana R E C, Inc | 2020 | 3.3 hrs | 1.30 | 2.6 hrs | 1.10 |
| City of Owensboro - (KY) | 2020 | 42 min | 0.69 | 42 min | 0.69 |
| Southern Indiana Gas & Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Troy - (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 ÷ 9,969 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. Spencer County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Spencer 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/spencer-county