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2021 Putnam County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Putnam County, IN went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (Indiana average 4.4 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1102nd 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 Putnam 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 | June 19, 2021 00:15 | June 21, 2021 21:45 | 2d 21h | 2,678 | 35K |
| 2 | September 14, 2021 02:15 | September 14, 2021 13:45 | 11h 30m | 2,119 | 5,591 |
| 3 | December 7, 2021 19:45 | December 7, 2021 21:00 | 1h 15m | 1,656 | 829 |
| 4 | December 21, 2021 21:15 | December 21, 2021 21:30 | 15m | 1,632 | 408 |
| 5 | April 25, 2021 13:30 | April 26, 2021 01:30 | 12h | 1,571 | 2,749 |
| 6 | December 11, 2021 04:15 | December 13, 2021 23:15 | 2d 19h | 1,327 | 18K |
| 7 | December 1, 2021 17:30 | December 1, 2021 19:30 | 2h | 1,289 | 420 |
| 8 | January 15, 2021 23:15 | January 16, 2021 04:30 | 5h 15m | 1,188 | 1,360 |
| 9 | March 15, 2021 17:00 | March 16, 2021 07:15 | 14h 15m | 993 | 1,505 |
| 10 | January 22, 2021 14:00 | January 22, 2021 19:15 | 5h 15m | 787 | 1,398 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 55 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Putnam 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 |
| AES Indiana | 2021 | 2.9 hrs | 1.61 | 1.7 hrs | 1.31 |
| Utilities Dist-Western IN REMC | 2021 | 10.1 hrs | 2.35 | 3.8 hrs | 1.76 |
| South Central Indiana REMC | 2021 | 11.0 hrs | 3.58 | 5.0 hrs | 2.52 |
| Parke County Rural E M C | 2018 | 14.2 hrs | 4.16 | 6.2 hrs | 1.82 |
| Hendricks County Rural E M C | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 1.23 | 78 min | 1.05 |
| Town of Bainbridge - (IN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 17,139 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county