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2021 Howard County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Howard County, IN went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (Indiana average 4.4 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1980th 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 Howard 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 11, 2021 03:30 | December 12, 2021 22:00 | 1d 18h | 4,151 | 17K |
| 2 | January 25, 2021 20:45 | January 26, 2021 17:45 | 21h | 2,604 | 16K |
| 3 | April 30, 2021 15:00 | April 30, 2021 16:45 | 1h 45m | 2,235 | 2,238 |
| 4 | May 31, 2021 21:45 | June 1, 2021 02:30 | 4h 45m | 2,067 | 4,894 |
| 5 | September 29, 2021 21:45 | September 30, 2021 03:15 | 5h 30m | 1,842 | 5,518 |
| 6 | March 15, 2021 18:15 | March 16, 2021 07:15 | 13h | 1,814 | 3,800 |
| 7 | February 4, 2021 22:45 | February 5, 2021 14:45 | 16h | 1,782 | 6,918 |
| 8 | January 16, 2021 03:45 | January 16, 2021 06:15 | 2h 30m | 1,531 | 3,826 |
| 9 | August 30, 2021 00:45 | August 31, 2021 00:45 | 1d | 1,287 | 4,386 |
| 10 | January 17, 2021 19:15 | January 17, 2021 19:45 | 30m | 1,258 | 629 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 62 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Howard 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 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2021 | 11.2 hrs | 1.57 | 3.8 hrs | 1.09 |
| Carroll-White REMC | 2021 | 18.8 hrs | - | 5.3 hrs | - |
| 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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 41,367 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county