– 0% of Elkhart out 0 customers out in Indiana

Power outage history

Elkhart County Indiana

9.0hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

9th most of 90 in Indiana 1.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Aug 12, 2021 33% of customers out · 90% back in 33 hours

Hours without power, average customer per year 9.0h / yr State average 4.6 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 1.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 28hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 3.1days Jan 1, 2021, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 76% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2021 22 hours without power, average customer

Electricity customers 70,799 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Elkhart's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 22 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Elkhart, hours without power per customer

ElkhartUS median countyIndiana average

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began	Storm	Peak out	Share	Lasted	90% restored	Customer-hours
Aug 11, 2021	Thunderstorms	23,112	33%	2.3 d	33 h	673k
Jan 1, 2021	Winter storm	12,750	18%	3.1 d	28 h	454k
Mar 30, 2025	Thunderstorms	13,408	19%	2.1 d	45 h	277k
Jun 13, 2022	Thunderstorms	12,789	18%	46 h	41 h	258k
Jul 16, 2024	Thunderstorms	13,676	19%	42 h	9.5 h	252k
Jul 18, 2015	Thunderstorms	8,706	12%	2.1 d	47 h	214k
Jun 20, 2021	Thunderstorms	7,042	10%	42 h	34 h	145k
Jul 23, 2022	Thunderstorms	8,694	12%	38 h	34 h	120k
Aug 10, 2020	Thunderstorms	7,824	11%	39 h	31 h	111k
Dec 28, 2015	Winter storm	5,849	8%	2.1 d	43 h	108k
Jul 11, 2019	Thunderstorms	8,384	12%	18 h	17 h	77k
Feb 12, 2019	Ice storm	7,459	11%	16 h	11 h	66k
May 2, 2018	Thunderstorms	3,195	5%	24 h	–	55k
May 23, 2019	Thunderstorms	7,634	11%	12 h	11 h	53k
Jul 20, 2023	Thunderstorms	12,597	18%	10 h	5.8 h	48k
Oct 17, 2022	Winter storm	6,171	9%	15 h	12 h	43k
Jul 29, 2023	Thunderstorms	6,550	9%	16 h	12 h	42k
Sep 23, 2018	No storm report	6,794	10%	7.0 h	6.2 h	42k
Aug 29, 2022	No storm report	5,907	8%	20 h	16 h	42k
May 14, 2019	No storm report	9,643	14%	3.2 h	2.0 h	28k
Oct 20, 2018	No storm report	1,736	2%	24 h	–	27k
Jul 20, 2018	Thunderstorms	3,631	5%	13 h	23 h	25k
Nov 27, 2019	Windstorm	3,297	5%	12 h	–	24k
Jun 18, 2021	Thunderstorms	5,370	8%	8.8 h	7.5 h	24k
Jun 10, 2020	Thunderstorms	2,691	4%	14 h	–	23k
Mar 3, 2023	Winter storm	2,810	4%	18 h	–	21k
Mar 1, 2017	Thunderstorms	2,984	4%	8.8 h	–	20k
Jun 5, 2018	No storm report	5,753	8%	3.8 h	2.2 h	19k
Jun 19, 2021	No storm report	1,471	2%	17 h	–	19k
Jun 26, 2021	Flooding	2,176	3%	13 h	–	18k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Elkhart from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

Thunderstorms 60%
No storm on record 24%
Winter storm 14%
Ice storm 1.7%
Flooding 0.7%
Windstorm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Elkhart

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Indiana territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility	Type	Outage min / yr	Excl. major storms	Outages / yr	Residential ¢/kWh	Customers
Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co	Investor Owned	532	178	1.32	22.1	434k
Indiana Michigan Power Co	Investor Owned	283	83	0.97	17.2	425k
Marshall County Rural E M C	IN	–	–	–	14.8	74k
Lagrange County Rural E M C	IN	141	66	1.11	14.1	62k
Noble County R E M C	Cooperative	135	107	1.29	13.4	11k
Midwest Energy Cooperative	Cooperative	–	–	–	18.5	320

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

St. Joseph, MI 22 h
Cass, MI 13 h
Elkhart (this county) 9.0 h
St. Joseph 8.5 h
Kosciusko 8.2 h
Marshall 5.8 h
LaGrange 5.6 h
Noble 1.9 h

Across Indiana

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Indiana counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 70,799 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →