Power outage history
Franklin County Indiana
5.0hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
34th most of 90 in Indiana 24% below the national median
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 Franklin's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Franklin, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 2018 | Ice storm | 1,954 | 23% | 30 h | 9.0 h | 17k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,136 | 13% | 9.0 h | 7.2 h | 9.7k |
| Feb 7, 2019 | Flooding | 2,039 | 24% | 4.2 h | 1.2 h | 8.7k |
| Jun 13, 2022 | No storm report | 1,998 | 23% | 12 h | 6.0 h | 8.5k |
| Jul 29, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 898 | 10% | 15 h | 12 h | 8.3k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 1,027 | 12% | 24 h | 16 h | 8.2k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,057 | 12% | 20 h | 18 h | 7.1k |
| Jul 14, 2025 | No storm report | 2,624 | 31% | 7.5 h | 7.2 h | 6.8k |
| May 7, 2024 | Tornadoes | 1,470 | 17% | 10 h | 8.8 h | 6.8k |
| Jun 18, 2021 | Flooding | 820 | 10% | 26 h | 13 h | 6.7k |
| Jul 7, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,686 | 20% | 3.5 h | 1.0 h | 4.8k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | No storm report | 544 | 6% | 17 h | 5.0 h | 4.5k |
| Sep 8, 2018 | No storm report | 983 | 11% | 4.2 h | 4.5 h | 4.2k |
| May 21, 2022 | No storm report | 641 | 7% | 10 h | 2.2 h | 3.8k |
| Jul 3, 2021 | No storm report | 1,733 | 20% | 6.5 h | 3.8 h | 3.4k |
| Jan 14, 2023 | No storm report | 494 | 6% | 8.8 h | 10 h | 3.2k |
| Nov 22, 2025 | No storm report | 2,407 | 28% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 3.2k |
| Jul 1, 2025 | No storm report | 1,005 | 12% | 4.0 h | 4.0 h | 3.1k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 747 | 9% | 8.2 h | 2.8 h | 3.1k |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 743 | 9% | 6.5 h | 4.5 h | 3.0k |
| Aug 27, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 392 | 5% | 11 h | – | 3.0k |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Windstorm | 1,006 | 12% | 6.0 h | 2.2 h | 2.9k |
| Jul 12, 2021 | No storm report | 994 | 12% | 2.8 h | 2.2 h | 2.7k |
| May 16, 2022 | No storm report | 2,048 | 24% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 2.6k |
| Jul 13, 2016 | No storm report | 350 | 4% | 14 h | – | 2.6k |
| Jul 28, 2023 | Flooding | 407 | 5% | 7.0 h | – | 2.4k |
| Jul 7, 2019 | No storm report | 376 | 4% | 6.2 h | – | 2.3k |
| Jun 13, 2024 | No storm report | 1,538 | 18% | 1.5 h | 12 min | 2.3k |
| Jan 28, 2024 | No storm report | 743 | 9% | 7.5 h | 5.2 h | 2.3k |
| Jul 29, 2024 | Tornadoes | 261 | 3% | 12 h | – | 2.2k |
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 Franklin from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 65%
- Thunderstorms 12%
- Flooding 7.8%
- Ice storm 6.0%
- Tropical storm 3.3%
- Tornadoes 3.3%
- Windstorm 1.1%
- Winter storm 0.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Franklin
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 |
| Southeastern Indiana R E M C | Cooperative | 346 | 323 | 2.07 | 15.6 | 26k |
| RushShelby Energy | Cooperative | 543 | 194 | 2.87 | 16.4 | 15k |
| Whitewater Valley Rural EMC | Cooperative | 317 | 317 | 2.63 | 15.4 | 12k |
| Decatur County Rural E M C | Cooperative | 463 | 220 | 2.76 | 15.0 | 8.2k |
| Butler Rural Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | – | – |
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
- Union 8.4 h
- Franklin (this county) 5.0 h
- Rush 4.5 h
- Dearborn 4.3 h
- Fayette 3.8 h
- Hamilton, OH 3.8 h
- Ripley 3.5 h
- Butler, OH 3.5 h
- Decatur 2.0 h
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 8,579 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 →