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2023 Blackford County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Blackford County, IN went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Indiana average 5.9 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1944th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with IN, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Indiana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Blackford County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 18, 2023 13:15 | September 18, 2023 16:15 | 3h | 1,994 | 4,083 |
| 2 | March 7, 2023 17:30 | March 7, 2023 20:30 | 3h | 1,895 | 3,173 |
| 3 | August 7, 2023 07:30 | August 7, 2023 13:00 | 5h 30m | 1,170 | 3,158 |
| 4 | April 1, 2023 03:00 | April 3, 2023 13:00 | 2d 10h | 345 | 8,032 |
| 5 | July 17, 2023 23:30 | July 18, 2023 01:15 | 1h 45m | 314 | 550 |
| 6 | June 23, 2023 13:30 | June 23, 2023 19:45 | 6h 15m | 169 | 186 |
| 7 | October 3, 2023 12:30 | October 3, 2023 14:30 | 2h | 155 | 272 |
| 8 | November 7, 2023 00:15 | November 7, 2023 01:15 | 1h | 93 | 93 |
| 9 | November 19, 2023 18:30 | November 19, 2023 23:15 | 4h 45m | 93 | 197 |
| 10 | July 6, 2023 19:00 | July 7, 2023 02:15 | 7h 15m | 91 | 169 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 7 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 Blackford County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.10 | 2.6 hrs | 0.97 |
| Jay 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 n/a of Indiana's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,872 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. Blackford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Blackford County, IN annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/indiana/blackford-county