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2021 Elkhart County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Elkhart County, IN went without power for an average of 22.5 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (Indiana average 4.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 92 Indiana counties and 385th 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 Elkhart 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 | August 6, 2021 16:45 | August 17, 2021 14:00 | 10d 21h | 23,112 | 697K |
| 2 | January 1, 2021 18:45 | January 6, 2021 17:45 | 4d 23h | 12,750 | 458K |
| 3 | June 20, 2021 00:15 | June 24, 2021 04:00 | 4d 3h | 7,042 | 170K |
| 4 | June 18, 2021 10:45 | June 19, 2021 23:15 | 1d 12h | 5,370 | 26K |
| 5 | July 7, 2021 19:00 | July 9, 2021 05:30 | 1d 10h | 4,041 | 15K |
| 6 | June 2, 2021 18:15 | June 3, 2021 01:45 | 7h 30m | 2,813 | 7,979 |
| 7 | June 24, 2021 13:00 | July 1, 2021 03:15 | 6d 14h | 2,176 | 36K |
| 8 | January 29, 2021 08:45 | January 29, 2021 17:30 | 8h 45m | 2,128 | 10K |
| 9 | October 29, 2021 09:30 | October 29, 2021 15:30 | 6h | 2,039 | 3,147 |
| 10 | June 7, 2021 12:45 | June 8, 2021 06:15 | 17h 30m | 1,931 | 5,753 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 101 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Elkhart 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 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | 2021 | 8.8 hrs | 1.55 | 2.9 hrs | 1.06 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2014 | 9.8 hrs | 2.23 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 |
| Noble County R E M C | 2021 | 2.8 hrs | 1.61 | 1.9 hrs | 1.15 |
| Marshall County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lagrange 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 ÷ 70,799 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. Elkhart County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elkhart 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/elkhart-county