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2020 St. Joseph County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in St. Joseph County, IN went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 897K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 829th 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 St. Joseph 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 | November 21, 2020 13:00 | November 22, 2020 01:45 | 12h 45m | 12,316 | 31K |
| 2 | May 23, 2020 20:30 | May 26, 2020 22:30 | 3d 2h | 11,939 | 299K |
| 3 | August 9, 2020 23:15 | August 14, 2020 03:45 | 4d 4h | 10,653 | 187K |
| 4 | June 9, 2020 03:15 | June 12, 2020 04:30 | 3d 1h | 6,026 | 70K |
| 5 | November 14, 2020 23:15 | November 17, 2020 01:30 | 2d 2h | 3,928 | 17K |
| 6 | May 17, 2020 22:30 | May 18, 2020 05:45 | 7h 15m | 3,662 | 8,032 |
| 7 | November 10, 2020 20:15 | November 12, 2020 07:45 | 1d 11h | 3,282 | 18K |
| 8 | February 4, 2020 03:00 | February 4, 2020 06:45 | 3h 45m | 3,129 | 5,985 |
| 9 | September 8, 2020 06:00 | September 8, 2020 23:30 | 17h 30m | 2,596 | 7,624 |
| 10 | May 19, 2020 03:45 | May 20, 2020 14:45 | 1d 11h | 2,527 | 6,887 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 119 reached 100+ customers, 27 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 St. Joseph 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 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2014 | 9.8 hrs | 2.23 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 |
| Kankakee Valley Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mishawaka | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of New Carlisle- (IN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Walkerton - (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 ÷ 94,899 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. St. Joseph County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Joseph 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/st-joseph-county