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2023 Wells County, IN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wells County, IN went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Indiana average 5.9 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 92 Indiana counties and 2402nd 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 Wells 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 15, 2023 22:00 | June 16, 2023 19:15 | 21h 15m | 831 | 4,076 |
| 2 | March 3, 2023 21:45 | March 4, 2023 16:00 | 18h 15m | 685 | 2,370 |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 04:00 | April 3, 2023 01:15 | 1d 21h | 446 | 11K |
| 4 | July 17, 2023 23:30 | July 18, 2023 01:15 | 1h 45m | 223 | 390 |
| 5 | September 26, 2023 16:30 | September 26, 2023 17:45 | 1h 15m | 185 | 231 |
| 6 | October 12, 2023 22:00 | October 12, 2023 23:00 | 1h | 167 | 167 |
| 7 | October 13, 2023 00:30 | October 13, 2023 04:45 | 4h 15m | 167 | 261 |
| 8 | December 11, 2023 15:30 | December 13, 2023 16:45 | 2d 1h | 137 | 6,699 |
| 9 | June 4, 2023 23:30 | June 5, 2023 00:30 | 1h | 118 | 118 |
| 10 | February 27, 2023 12:00 | February 27, 2023 17:45 | 5h 45m | 116 | 404 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 11 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 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 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.10 | 2.6 hrs | 0.97 |
| 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 n/a of Indiana's customers in 2023; 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, 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/wells-county