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2021 Benton County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Benton County, IN went without power for an average of 9.3 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (Indiana average 4.4 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 832nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with IN, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Indiana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2021
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 26, 2021 02:45 | January 26, 2021 11:45 | 9h | 2,240 | 17K |
| 2 | August 12, 2021 09:30 | August 13, 2021 04:45 | 19h 15m | 1,422 | 8,276 |
| 3 | January 1, 2021 16:00 | January 2, 2021 11:00 | 19h | 431 | 2,849 |
| 4 | December 16, 2021 02:45 | December 16, 2021 08:00 | 5h 15m | 396 | 1,686 |
| 5 | March 15, 2021 16:45 | March 16, 2021 14:30 | 21h 45m | 394 | 569 |
| 6 | March 10, 2021 19:45 | March 10, 2021 21:45 | 2h | 393 | 590 |
| 7 | October 11, 2021 21:30 | October 12, 2021 17:15 | 19h 45m | 296 | 2,259 |
| 8 | January 26, 2021 13:15 | January 26, 2021 16:30 | 3h 15m | 270 | 738 |
| 9 | June 19, 2021 05:30 | June 19, 2021 09:00 | 3h 30m | 231 | 693 |
| 10 | June 29, 2021 02:45 | June 29, 2021 05:30 | 2h 45m | 231 | 578 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 12 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.4 hrs | 1.11 | 2.1 hrs | 0.94 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | 2021 | 8.8 hrs | 1.55 | 2.9 hrs | 1.06 |
| Carroll-White REMC | 2021 | 18.8 hrs | - | 5.3 hrs | - |
| Tipmont Rural Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 3.5 hrs | 1.39 | 2.7 hrs | 1.24 |
| Warren County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Newton 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,132 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, IN annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/indiana/benton-county