Power outage history
Orange County Indiana
2.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
68th most of 90 in Indiana 66% 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 Orange'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 5.3 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Orange, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2025 | Tornadoes | 2,865 | 24% | 23 h | 14 h | 24k |
| May 31, 2018 | Tropical Storm Alberto | 1,715 | 14% | 31 h | 31 h | 20k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | No storm report | 1,859 | 15% | 12 h | 12 h | 19k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,093 | 17% | 25 h | 14 h | 19k |
| Aug 7, 2023 | Tornadoes | 2,281 | 19% | 30 h | 13 h | 17k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 514 | 4% | 24 h | – | 9.3k |
| Jun 17, 2022 | No storm report | 2,490 | 20% | 6.0 h | 3.8 h | 9.2k |
| Jul 23, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,001 | 8% | 19 h | 17 h | 8.6k |
| May 19, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,757 | 14% | 4.5 h | 1.0 h | 7.9k |
| Jul 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,254 | 10% | 6.5 h | 5.0 h | 6.5k |
| Jul 16, 2020 | No storm report | 1,253 | 10% | 5.8 h | 5.8 h | 5.9k |
| Apr 2, 2016 | Windstorm | 837 | 7% | 6.5 h | 3.8 h | 5.1k |
| May 21, 2022 | No storm report | 344 | 3% | 26 h | – | 4.8k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 352 | 3% | 19 h | – | 4.4k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Ice storm | 615 | 5% | 13 h | 21 h | 4.0k |
| Jun 5, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 818 | 7% | 4.5 h | 1.8 h | 3.6k |
| Nov 11, 2020 | No storm report | 781 | 6% | 4.0 h | 6.0 h | 3.1k |
| Jul 12, 2025 | No storm report | 1,605 | 13% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 3.1k |
| Sep 23, 2024 | No storm report | 762 | 6% | 6.2 h | 6.2 h | 3.1k |
| Jul 7, 2022 | No storm report | 258 | 2% | 13 h | – | 2.8k |
| Jun 28, 2025 | No storm report | 261 | 2% | 9.2 h | – | 2.4k |
| Oct 7, 2025 | No storm report | 259 | 2% | 11 h | – | 2.3k |
| Jun 22, 2019 | No storm report | 768 | 6% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 2.1k |
| Oct 28, 2024 | No storm report | 765 | 6% | 2.8 h | 3.2 h | 2.1k |
| Jun 14, 2016 | No storm report | 764 | 6% | 2.8 h | 4.2 h | 2.1k |
| Dec 23, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 817 | 7% | 2.5 h | 1.2 h | 2.0k |
| May 10, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 407 | 3% | 6.0 h | – | 2.0k |
| Apr 29, 2017 | No storm report | 461 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 2.0k |
| Oct 26, 2019 | Tropical Storm Olga | 764 | 6% | 2.5 h | 3.0 h | 1.9k |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,854 | 15% | 1.0 h | 12 min | 1.8k |
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 Orange from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 45%
- Tornadoes 22%
- Thunderstorms 18%
- Tropical storm 12%
- Ice storm 2.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Orange
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 |
| Orange County Rural E M C | IN | – | – | – | 13.8 | 100k |
| Town of Paoli | IN | – | – | – | – | 14k |
| Dubois Rural Electric Coop Inc | Cooperative | 197 | 78 | 1.29 | 13.9 | 13k |
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
- Crawford 15 h
- Lawrence 5.9 h
- Washington 4.8 h
- Orange (this county) 2.2 h
- Martin 1.1 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 12,173 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 →