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2023 Elkhart County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Elkhart County, IN went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 360K customer-hours (Indiana average 5.9 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 92 Indiana counties and 1463rd 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 Elkhart 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 | July 20, 2023 11:45 | July 22, 2023 03:45 | 1d 16h | 12,597 | 53K |
| 2 | July 28, 2023 11:00 | August 1, 2023 02:30 | 3d 15h | 6,550 | 45K |
| 3 | July 26, 2023 17:00 | July 28, 2023 07:30 | 1d 14h | 3,610 | 30K |
| 4 | June 17, 2023 11:00 | June 18, 2023 18:30 | 1d 7h | 3,207 | 12K |
| 5 | March 31, 2023 16:30 | April 2, 2023 04:00 | 1d 11h | 2,997 | 22K |
| 6 | March 3, 2023 21:00 | March 5, 2023 06:00 | 1d 9h | 2,810 | 24K |
| 7 | June 30, 2023 15:15 | July 2, 2023 03:15 | 1d 12h | 2,154 | 15K |
| 8 | June 11, 2023 20:45 | June 12, 2023 22:45 | 1d 2h | 1,691 | 4,799 |
| 9 | November 29, 2023 00:30 | November 29, 2023 04:45 | 4h 15m | 1,640 | 2,462 |
| 10 | January 12, 2023 04:30 | January 12, 2023 22:45 | 18h 15m | 1,625 | 2,966 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 109 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Elkhart 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 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | 2023 | 5.3 hrs | 1.14 | 2.5 hrs | 0.87 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2023 | 10.2 hrs | 1.50 | 3.3 hrs | 1.15 |
| Noble County R E M C | 2023 | 3.8 hrs | 1.94 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 |
| Marshall County Rural E M C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lagrange 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 ÷ 70,799 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. Elkhart County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Elkhart 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/elkhart-county