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2020 Union County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Union County, IN went without power for an average of 10.8 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 92 Indiana counties and 740th 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 Union 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 | April 9, 2020 02:00 | April 11, 2020 03:15 | 2d 1h | 930 | 12K |
| 2 | November 15, 2020 08:30 | November 17, 2020 01:30 | 1d 17h | 275 | 1,483 |
| 3 | August 13, 2020 22:00 | August 15, 2020 19:45 | 1d 21h | 246 | 467 |
| 4 | May 31, 2020 07:45 | June 1, 2020 20:45 | 1d 13h | 232 | 596 |
| 5 | July 11, 2020 22:00 | July 12, 2020 13:45 | 15h 45m | 212 | 2,263 |
| 6 | June 10, 2020 17:45 | June 11, 2020 02:00 | 8h 15m | 187 | 618 |
| 7 | July 21, 2020 09:00 | July 21, 2020 14:15 | 5h 15m | 183 | 233 |
| 8 | July 27, 2020 20:15 | July 28, 2020 00:15 | 4h | 182 | 219 |
| 9 | June 27, 2020 14:45 | June 27, 2020 16:45 | 2h | 162 | 127 |
| 10 | December 28, 2020 11:30 | December 28, 2020 13:00 | 1h 30m | 162 | 212 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 17 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Union 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 |
| Whitewater Valley Rural EMC | 2018 | 9.2 hrs | 1.83 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,229 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county