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2020 Starke County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Starke County, IN went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1630th 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 Starke 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 | 1,579 | 1,074 |
| 2 | August 11, 2020 02:15 | August 11, 2020 05:15 | 3h | 1,437 | 2,969 |
| 3 | August 2, 2020 05:30 | August 2, 2020 08:30 | 3h | 1,126 | 3,378 |
| 4 | October 9, 2020 15:30 | October 9, 2020 16:30 | 1h | 1,038 | 545 |
| 5 | November 15, 2020 14:00 | November 16, 2020 01:00 | 11h | 907 | 6,124 |
| 6 | June 27, 2020 02:15 | June 28, 2020 06:15 | 1d 4h | 861 | 5,549 |
| 7 | June 25, 2020 16:15 | June 25, 2020 19:00 | 2h 45m | 805 | 809 |
| 8 | May 30, 2020 00:30 | May 30, 2020 03:45 | 3h 15m | 732 | 919 |
| 9 | June 10, 2020 19:45 | June 11, 2020 03:00 | 7h 15m | 625 | 1,643 |
| 10 | June 13, 2020 23:15 | June 14, 2020 05:00 | 5h 45m | 437 | 1,588 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 24 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Starke 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 |
| Fulton County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kankakee Valley Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall 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 ÷ 10,009 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. Starke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Starke 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/starke-county