Power Out Map
– 0% of Fayette out 0 customers out in Indiana

Power outage history

Fayette County Indiana

3.8hours

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

48th most of 90 in Indiana 42% below the national median

Worst outage on record Jul 11, 2020 25% of customers out · 90% back in 25 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.8h / yr State average 4.6 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 40hours Nov 15, 2018, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 37% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 8.2 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,302 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 Fayette'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 8.2 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Fayette, hours without power per customer

FayetteUS median countyIndiana average
0 2 4 6 8 10 1.6 ’15 4.2 ’16 5.4 ’17 3.5 ’18 1.9 ’19 8.2 ’20 2.1 ’21 4.4 ’22 3.2 ’23 3.8 ’24 3.6 ’25 US 6.6 IN 4.6

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
Jul 11, 2020 Thunderstorms 2,108 25% 32 h 25 h 31k
Jul 7, 2017 No storm report 2,273 27% 27 h 24 h 17k
Apr 2, 2016 Windstorm 2,174 26% 19 h 16 h 17k
Nov 15, 2018 Ice storm 2,421 29% 40 h 6.5 h 17k
Apr 29, 2017 No storm report 2,989 36% 15 h 2.0 h 11k
Jun 13, 2022 No storm report 2,319 28% 22 h 9.8 h 9.6k
Apr 8, 2020 Thunderstorms 789 10% 24 h 19 h 9.3k
Jul 29, 2023 No storm report 1,745 21% 17 h 13 h 7.7k
Jun 18, 2025 No storm report 676 8% 27 h 26 h 7.5k
Dec 15, 2022 No storm report 2,252 27% 3.2 h 2.0 h 6.9k
Sep 27, 2024 Hurricane Helene 487 6% 23 h 23 h 6.8k
Jul 2, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,897 23% 18 h 7.5 h 6.4k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +14h

When it happens

The outage clock

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

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • No storm on record 63%
  • Thunderstorms 23%
  • Ice storm 8.2%
  • Tropical storm 3.3%
  • Winter storm 2.4%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Fayette

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
Duke Energy Indiana, LLC Investor Owned 267 108 1.26 15.0 809k
Henry County Rural E M C IN 339 150 3.65 13.0 142k
RushShelby Energy Cooperative 543 194 2.87 16.4 15k
Whitewater Valley Rural EMC Cooperative 317 317 2.63 15.4 12k

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

Across Indiana

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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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 8,302 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 →