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2021 Starke County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Starke County, IN went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 123K customer-hours (Indiana average 4.4 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 669th 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 Starke 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 26, 2021 21:00 | June 28, 2021 18:30 | 1d 21h | 3,415 | 33K |
| 2 | December 11, 2021 12:00 | December 12, 2021 11:45 | 23h 45m | 2,199 | 6,412 |
| 3 | August 11, 2021 12:30 | August 13, 2021 03:45 | 1d 15h | 1,896 | 14K |
| 4 | June 20, 2021 22:15 | June 22, 2021 08:45 | 1d 10h | 1,765 | 15K |
| 5 | November 11, 2021 18:00 | November 11, 2021 21:45 | 3h 45m | 1,540 | 5,099 |
| 6 | January 1, 2021 18:00 | January 5, 2021 08:00 | 3d 14h | 1,318 | 25K |
| 7 | October 11, 2021 22:30 | October 12, 2021 08:30 | 10h | 811 | 4,146 |
| 8 | December 18, 2021 14:15 | December 18, 2021 18:00 | 3h 45m | 626 | 1,098 |
| 9 | April 26, 2021 23:30 | April 27, 2021 02:15 | 2h 45m | 620 | 1,331 |
| 10 | April 27, 2021 07:45 | April 27, 2021 10:45 | 3h | 620 | 212 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 25 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Starke 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 |
| Fulton County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kankakee Valley Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Marshall 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 ÷ 10,009 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. Starke County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Starke 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/starke-county