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2021 St. Joseph County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in St. Joseph County, IN went without power for an average of 17.6 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (Indiana average 4.4 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 92 Indiana counties and 481st 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 St. Joseph 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 1, 2021 15:00 | January 6, 2021 06:45 | 4d 15h | 22,952 | 768K |
| 2 | June 19, 2021 11:45 | June 24, 2021 07:30 | 4d 19h | 8,552 | 146K |
| 3 | June 25, 2021 07:45 | July 1, 2021 09:45 | 6d 2h | 6,841 | 171K |
| 4 | October 11, 2021 11:00 | October 13, 2021 22:45 | 2d 11h | 6,273 | 97K |
| 5 | August 10, 2021 06:30 | August 15, 2021 07:00 | 5d | 4,892 | 141K |
| 6 | April 25, 2021 12:30 | April 25, 2021 20:45 | 8h 15m | 4,266 | 4,111 |
| 7 | November 14, 2021 22:30 | November 16, 2021 04:00 | 1d 5h | 3,956 | 27K |
| 8 | July 23, 2021 11:15 | July 24, 2021 07:45 | 20h 30m | 3,776 | 29K |
| 9 | December 10, 2021 21:00 | December 12, 2021 23:30 | 2d 2h | 2,588 | 26K |
| 10 | December 17, 2021 20:15 | December 18, 2021 04:45 | 8h 30m | 2,547 | 5,760 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 109 reached 100+ customers, 38 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 St. Joseph 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 |
| Kankakee Valley Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mishawaka | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of New Carlisle- (IN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Walkerton - (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 ÷ 94,899 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. St. Joseph County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Joseph 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/st-joseph-county