Power outage history
Pulaski County Indiana
3.6hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
50th most of 90 in Indiana 46% 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 Pulaski'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 8.2 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Pulaski, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 2015 | Winter storm | 1,323 | 22% | 36 h | 26 h | 31k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,767 | 29% | 3.1 d | 7.0 h | 26k |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,237 | 20% | 23 h | 11 h | 14k |
| Aug 12, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,159 | 19% | 13 h | 4.8 h | 11k |
| Jul 15, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 908 | 15% | 20 h | 9.2 h | 9.1k |
| May 16, 2025 | No storm report | 360 | 6% | 22 h | 19 h | 6.8k |
| Jul 5, 2022 | No storm report | 645 | 11% | 5.5 h | 1.0 h | 3.4k |
| May 23, 2019 | No storm report | 622 | 10% | 14 h | 9.5 h | 3.4k |
| May 26, 2024 | No storm report | 620 | 10% | 5.5 h | 5.2 h | 3.0k |
| May 20, 2025 | No storm report | 633 | 10% | 6.0 h | 48 min | 3.0k |
| Jul 24, 2017 | No storm report | 1,020 | 17% | 5.0 h | 6.5 h | 2.9k |
| Jun 6, 2024 | No storm report | 1,164 | 19% | 3.5 h | 2.5 h | 2.8k |
| Feb 23, 2024 | No storm report | 618 | 10% | 4.5 h | 1.0 h | 2.7k |
| Jun 25, 2024 | No storm report | 761 | 13% | 3.5 h | 3.2 h | 2.6k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 639 | 11% | 5.8 h | 3.5 h | 2.6k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | No storm report | 302 | 5% | 16 h | – | 2.3k |
| Oct 6, 2023 | No storm report | 667 | 11% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 2.2k |
| Sep 27, 2015 | No storm report | 1,071 | 18% | 2.0 h | 2.2 h | 2.1k |
| Mar 15, 2025 | No storm report | 428 | 7% | 7.0 h | 1.8 h | 2.1k |
| Dec 22, 2016 | No storm report | 1,067 | 18% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 1.9k |
| Feb 2, 2022 | Winter storm | 326 | 5% | 8.0 h | 14 h | 1.8k |
| Mar 1, 2017 | No storm report | 352 | 6% | 5.2 h | 5.8 h | 1.7k |
| Aug 30, 2015 | No storm report | 567 | 9% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 1.6k |
| Jun 10, 2015 | No storm report | 894 | 15% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 1.5k |
| May 18, 2022 | No storm report | 591 | 10% | 2.5 h | 30 min | 1.5k |
| May 11, 2015 | No storm report | 1,072 | 18% | 2.0 h | 11 h | 1.5k |
| Aug 13, 2018 | No storm report | 484 | 8% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 1.5k |
| Jul 9, 2024 | Hurricane Beryl | 250 | 4% | 8.2 h | – | 1.3k |
| Dec 3, 2022 | No storm report | 623 | 10% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 1.2k |
| Aug 11, 2020 | No storm report | 712 | 12% | 3.8 h | 1.5 h | 1.2k |
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 Pulaski from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 52%
- Thunderstorms 44%
- Winter storm 2.7%
- Tropical storm 1.3%
- Flooding 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Pulaski
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 |
| Fulton County Rural E M C | IN | – | – | – | – | 69k |
| Kankakee Valley Rural E M C | Cooperative | 415 | 401 | 6.50 | 14.7 | 19k |
| Carroll-White REMC | Cooperative | 839 | 553 | – | 15.4 | 15k |
| Town of Winamac | IN | – | – | – | – | 14k |
| 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.
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 6,086 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 →