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2023 Putnam County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Putnam County, IN went without power for an average of 21.3 hours, a total of 365K customer-hours (Indiana average 5.9 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 376th 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 Putnam 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 | June 29, 2023 15:45 | July 10, 2023 11:15 | 10d 19h | 9,273 | 303K |
| 2 | September 1, 2023 13:15 | September 1, 2023 13:45 | 30m | 1,905 | 586 |
| 3 | March 31, 2023 23:30 | April 6, 2023 06:15 | 5d 6h | 1,495 | 16K |
| 4 | February 17, 2023 05:30 | February 17, 2023 17:45 | 12h 15m | 1,316 | 4,258 |
| 5 | July 29, 2023 07:00 | July 30, 2023 01:15 | 18h 15m | 1,094 | 6,856 |
| 6 | March 3, 2023 13:30 | March 4, 2023 10:00 | 20h 30m | 1,044 | 5,632 |
| 7 | November 7, 2023 15:15 | November 8, 2023 13:30 | 22h 15m | 710 | 623 |
| 8 | September 9, 2023 19:15 | September 9, 2023 23:45 | 4h 30m | 681 | 3,065 |
| 9 | October 5, 2023 20:15 | October 6, 2023 05:00 | 8h 45m | 525 | 922 |
| 10 | March 25, 2023 16:45 | March 26, 2023 12:45 | 20h | 504 | 1,160 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 32 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 Putnam 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Indiana, LLC | 2023 | 10.7 hrs | 1.48 | 1.6 hrs | 0.89 |
| AES Indiana | 2023 | 7.8 hrs | 1.38 | 87 min | 0.98 |
| Utilities Dist-Western IN REMC | 2023 | 21.7 hrs | 3.32 | 4.5 hrs | 2.05 |
| South Central Indiana REMC | 2023 | 46.1 hrs | 4.61 | 4.3 hrs | 2.44 |
| Parke County Rural E M C | 2018 | 14.2 hrs | 4.16 | 6.2 hrs | 1.82 |
| Hendricks County Rural E M C | 2023 | 3.8 hrs | 1.50 | 71 min | 0.94 |
| Town of Bainbridge - (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 n/a of Indiana's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 17,139 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. Putnam County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Putnam 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/putnam-county