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2021 Wells County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wells County, IN went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Indiana average 4.4 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 2353rd 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 Wells 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 04:15 | January 26, 2021 10:00 | 5h 45m | 1,729 | 9,277 |
| 2 | February 2, 2021 12:15 | February 2, 2021 19:00 | 6h 45m | 1,724 | 7,471 |
| 3 | May 14, 2021 17:15 | May 14, 2021 19:45 | 2h 30m | 1,623 | 4,058 |
| 4 | February 3, 2021 21:00 | February 4, 2021 01:45 | 4h 45m | 533 | 2,513 |
| 5 | May 22, 2021 01:45 | May 22, 2021 03:15 | 1h 30m | 211 | 303 |
| 6 | July 30, 2021 13:00 | July 30, 2021 22:15 | 9h 15m | 200 | 826 |
| 7 | July 15, 2021 13:45 | July 15, 2021 17:15 | 3h 30m | 191 | 669 |
| 8 | August 20, 2021 15:15 | August 20, 2021 15:45 | 30m | 120 | 60 |
| 9 | November 15, 2021 11:00 | November 15, 2021 20:00 | 9h | 108 | 556 |
| 10 | February 17, 2021 16:15 | February 17, 2021 17:45 | 1h 30m | 97 | 53 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 9 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Wells 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 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2021 | 11.2 hrs | 1.57 | 3.8 hrs | 1.09 |
| Heartland REMC | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jay County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bluffton - (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 ÷ 17,366 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. Wells County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wells 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/wells-county