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2020 Vigo County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Vigo County, IN went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 219K customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1557th 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 Vigo 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 23:00 | August 12, 2020 09:15 | 1d 10h | 10,943 | 55K |
| 2 | December 17, 2020 05:45 | December 17, 2020 07:15 | 1h 30m | 4,642 | 4,494 |
| 3 | July 11, 2020 22:45 | July 13, 2020 19:30 | 1d 20h | 4,109 | 29K |
| 4 | April 9, 2020 00:30 | April 10, 2020 20:00 | 1d 19h | 3,723 | 37K |
| 5 | July 27, 2020 19:00 | July 28, 2020 09:30 | 14h 30m | 3,660 | 5,016 |
| 6 | September 3, 2020 05:15 | September 3, 2020 09:30 | 4h 15m | 3,474 | 12K |
| 7 | December 29, 2020 15:45 | December 29, 2020 18:30 | 2h 45m | 3,460 | 975 |
| 8 | October 18, 2020 19:15 | October 19, 2020 01:30 | 6h 15m | 1,853 | 5,006 |
| 9 | June 9, 2020 13:45 | June 10, 2020 05:00 | 15h 15m | 1,514 | 5,741 |
| 10 | March 10, 2020 08:00 | March 10, 2020 16:15 | 8h 15m | 1,389 | 2,122 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 66 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Vigo 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 |
| Utilities Dist-Western IN REMC | 2020 | 8.9 hrs | 2.52 | 5.9 hrs | 2.15 |
| Western Indiana Energy REMC | 2020 | 5.9 hrs | 2.30 | 4.0 hrs | 2.07 |
| Parke County Rural E M C | 2018 | 14.2 hrs | 4.16 | 6.2 hrs | 1.82 |
| 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 ÷ 51,609 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. Vigo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vigo 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/vigo-county