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2021 Newton County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Newton County, IN went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 61K customer-hours (Indiana average 4.4 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 820th 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 Newton 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 09:30 | 6h 45m | 3,601 | 14K |
| 2 | December 10, 2021 22:15 | December 12, 2021 11:30 | 1d 13h | 1,728 | 15K |
| 3 | September 25, 2021 05:45 | September 25, 2021 07:30 | 1h 45m | 1,390 | 2,432 |
| 4 | January 1, 2021 17:30 | January 3, 2021 20:45 | 2d 3h | 1,032 | 13K |
| 5 | August 29, 2021 23:15 | August 30, 2021 02:00 | 2h 45m | 716 | 1,253 |
| 6 | August 12, 2021 08:00 | August 12, 2021 23:45 | 15h 45m | 610 | 6,714 |
| 7 | January 25, 2021 17:45 | January 25, 2021 20:45 | 3h | 592 | 1,776 |
| 8 | November 18, 2021 17:15 | November 19, 2021 03:00 | 9h 45m | 521 | 538 |
| 9 | March 15, 2021 18:00 | March 16, 2021 23:30 | 1d 5h | 318 | 343 |
| 10 | May 9, 2021 15:30 | May 9, 2021 17:15 | 1h 45m | 235 | 313 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 15 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Newton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | 2021 | 8.8 hrs | 1.55 | 2.9 hrs | 1.06 |
| Jasper County Rural E M C | 2021 | 5.4 hrs | 4.21 | 58 min | 0.94 |
| 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 ÷ 6,445 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. Newton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newton 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/newton-county