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2021 Union County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Union County, IN went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 5,069 customer-hours (Indiana average 4.4 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 92 Indiana counties and 2127th 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 Union 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 9, 2021 21:30 | June 10, 2021 02:30 | 5h | 1,104 | 1,314 |
| 2 | November 14, 2021 16:15 | November 14, 2021 17:30 | 1h 15m | 603 | 612 |
| 3 | July 3, 2021 17:30 | July 3, 2021 18:45 | 1h 15m | 136 | 138 |
| 4 | April 21, 2021 07:15 | April 21, 2021 09:00 | 1h 45m | 116 | 134 |
| 5 | March 16, 2021 06:45 | March 16, 2021 08:45 | 2h | 61 | 78 |
| 6 | May 3, 2021 01:30 | May 3, 2021 03:30 | 2h | 61 | 120 |
| 7 | September 9, 2021 13:00 | September 9, 2021 18:00 | 5h | 59 | 194 |
| 8 | August 13, 2021 01:00 | August 13, 2021 04:15 | 3h 15m | 58 | 89 |
| 9 | August 13, 2021 17:00 | August 13, 2021 19:15 | 2h 15m | 55 | 16 |
| 10 | September 15, 2021 20:30 | September 15, 2021 23:45 | 3h 15m | 55 | 166 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 4 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Union 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 |
| Whitewater Valley Rural EMC | 2018 | 9.2 hrs | 1.83 | 2.2 hrs | 1.23 |
| 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 ÷ 2,229 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county