Power outage history
Newton County Indiana
5.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
30th most of 90 in Indiana 16% 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 Newton's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 11 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Newton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2025 | No storm report | 1,937 | 30% | 20 h | 10 h | 36k |
| Feb 24, 2016 | Winter storm | 1,855 | 29% | 26 h | 19 h | 21k |
| May 23, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,867 | 29% | 15 h | 12 h | 16k |
| Jan 25, 2021 | Winter storm | 3,601 | 56% | 6.2 h | 3.2 h | 14k |
| Dec 10, 2021 | No storm report | 1,728 | 27% | 12 h | 3.2 h | 12k |
| Jan 1, 2021 | Winter storm | 1,032 | 16% | 17 h | 9.8 h | 12k |
| Jul 23, 2022 | No storm report | 827 | 13% | 20 h | 9.2 h | 8.5k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 1,443 | 22% | 12 h | 2.0 h | 8.4k |
| May 16, 2025 | Windstorm | 609 | 9% | 13 h | 10 h | 7.8k |
| Jul 15, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 294 | 5% | 2.1 d | – | 7.5k |
| May 18, 2017 | No storm report | 1,331 | 21% | 5.2 h | 5.0 h | 7.0k |
| Aug 15, 2016 | No storm report | 1,426 | 22% | 4.8 h | 2.8 h | 6.8k |
| Aug 12, 2021 | No storm report | 610 | 9% | 12 h | 2.0 h | 6.7k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 658 | 10% | 38 h | 36 h | 6.4k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 493 | 8% | 30 h | 29 h | 6.0k |
| Nov 18, 2015 | No storm report | 2,033 | 32% | 4.2 h | 1.5 h | 5.8k |
| Sep 9, 2015 | No storm report | 1,356 | 21% | 7.5 h | 4.2 h | 5.2k |
| Aug 28, 2022 | No storm report | 678 | 11% | 7.2 h | 7.0 h | 4.5k |
| Sep 22, 2024 | No storm report | 949 | 15% | 4.8 h | 4.2 h | 4.5k |
| Nov 26, 2018 | No storm report | 751 | 12% | 16 h | 12 min | 4.0k |
| Jul 5, 2018 | No storm report | 321 | 5% | 20 h | – | 3.7k |
| Jan 22, 2024 | Winter storm | 1,439 | 22% | 3.0 h | 1.0 h | 3.6k |
| Mar 31, 2023 | No storm report | 703 | 11% | 7.0 h | 5.2 h | 3.4k |
| Oct 20, 2018 | No storm report | 437 | 7% | 15 h | 15 h | 3.0k |
| Mar 3, 2023 | No storm report | 491 | 8% | 12 h | 9.8 h | 3.0k |
| Dec 2, 2022 | No storm report | 550 | 9% | 5.2 h | 12 h | 2.9k |
| Apr 2, 2016 | No storm report | 1,315 | 20% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 2.8k |
| Jan 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,412 | 22% | 2.0 h | 1.2 h | 2.8k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | No storm report | 902 | 14% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 2.7k |
| Aug 18, 2015 | No storm report | 1,304 | 20% | 2.5 h | 3.5 h | 2.5k |
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 Newton from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 65%
- Thunderstorms 16%
- Winter storm 15%
- Windstorm 4.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Newton
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 |
| Newton County Rural E M C | IN | – | – | – | – | 17k |
| Jasper County Rural E M C | Cooperative | 410 | 104 | 3.29 | 16.1 | 7.8k |
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
- Newton (this county) 5.5 h
- Lake 4.7 h
- Benton 4.4 h
- Iroquois, IL 4.2 h
- Kankakee, IL 3.3 h
- Jasper 0.8 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 6,445 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 →