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2020 Wells County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wells County, IN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 7,427 customer-hours (Indiana average 3.9 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 2841st 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 Wells 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 23, 2020 12:15 | January 23, 2020 16:45 | 4h 30m | 778 | 599 |
| 2 | March 29, 2020 16:15 | March 29, 2020 21:45 | 5h 30m | 129 | 361 |
| 3 | July 21, 2020 20:00 | July 22, 2020 04:15 | 8h 15m | 112 | 577 |
| 4 | August 4, 2020 12:00 | August 4, 2020 13:00 | 1h | 106 | 106 |
| 5 | February 1, 2020 04:15 | February 1, 2020 10:00 | 5h 45m | 102 | 558 |
| 6 | April 6, 2020 20:15 | April 7, 2020 01:00 | 4h 45m | 96 | 133 |
| 7 | March 31, 2020 16:45 | March 31, 2020 23:30 | 6h 45m | 95 | 641 |
| 8 | August 11, 2020 00:00 | August 11, 2020 17:30 | 17h 30m | 92 | 367 |
| 9 | November 19, 2020 19:00 | November 19, 2020 21:30 | 2h 30m | 86 | 215 |
| 10 | September 7, 2020 19:00 | September 8, 2020 07:00 | 12h | 81 | 333 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 5 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 Wells 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 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2020 | 7.9 hrs | 1.27 | 3.3 hrs | 1.01 |
| Heartland REMC | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jay County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bluffton - (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 ÷ 17,366 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. Wells County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wells 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/wells-county