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2021 Blackford County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Blackford County, IN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Indiana average 4.4 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 2391st 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 Blackford 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 | December 28, 2021 20:45 | December 29, 2021 02:00 | 5h 15m | 807 | 3,029 |
| 2 | September 17, 2021 06:30 | September 17, 2021 09:15 | 2h 45m | 531 | 1,460 |
| 3 | December 20, 2021 11:15 | December 20, 2021 12:00 | 45m | 514 | 386 |
| 4 | May 6, 2021 06:30 | May 6, 2021 11:15 | 4h 45m | 199 | 941 |
| 5 | May 26, 2021 13:00 | May 26, 2021 17:00 | 4h | 199 | 613 |
| 6 | March 19, 2021 01:30 | March 19, 2021 03:30 | 2h | 167 | 334 |
| 7 | April 30, 2021 13:15 | April 30, 2021 13:30 | 15m | 123 | 31 |
| 8 | December 11, 2021 07:00 | December 12, 2021 18:45 | 1d 11h | 113 | 1,407 |
| 9 | May 12, 2021 12:45 | May 12, 2021 13:45 | 1h | 107 | 107 |
| 10 | June 27, 2021 21:45 | June 27, 2021 23:00 | 1h 15m | 101 | 126 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 10 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 Blackford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2021 | 11.2 hrs | 1.57 | 3.8 hrs | 1.09 |
| Jay 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 ÷ 7,872 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. Blackford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blackford 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/blackford-county