Power outage history
Rush County Indiana
4.5hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
40th most of 90 in Indiana 32% 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 Rush'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 8.4 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Rush, 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 | Thunderstorms | 5,172 | 67% | 30 h | 8.5 h | 48k |
| Jun 3, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,404 | 57% | 21 h | 19 h | 35k |
| May 21, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 4,496 | 58% | 30 h | 3.2 h | 23k |
| Aug 25, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 2,539 | 33% | 15 h | 4.2 h | 16k |
| Jun 23, 2016 | No storm report | 4,683 | 61% | 15 h | 4.0 h | 15k |
| Nov 15, 2018 | Ice storm | 1,439 | 19% | 24 h | 6.5 h | 15k |
| Nov 23, 2019 | No storm report | 3,760 | 49% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 11k |
| Dec 26, 2016 | No storm report | 1,631 | 21% | 6.5 h | 5.2 h | 7.4k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,178 | 28% | 17 h | 1.0 h | 7.0k |
| Jul 11, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,146 | 15% | 11 h | 8.8 h | 6.9k |
| Jan 10, 2017 | No storm report | 2,283 | 30% | 8.0 h | 1.2 h | 5.6k |
| Jul 9, 2018 | No storm report | 602 | 8% | 9.0 h | 9.0 h | 5.4k |
| Dec 28, 2015 | No storm report | 635 | 8% | 14 h | 12 h | 4.6k |
| Dec 23, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,559 | 33% | 2.2 h | 1.0 h | 4.3k |
| Sep 21, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,124 | 15% | 16 h | 30 min | 4.3k |
| Oct 20, 2018 | No storm report | 1,233 | 16% | 5.5 h | 2.2 h | 4.3k |
| May 6, 2020 | No storm report | 625 | 8% | 11 h | 10 h | 3.8k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 425 | 6% | 17 h | 19 h | 3.7k |
| Feb 7, 2017 | No storm report | 623 | 8% | 6.5 h | 2.8 h | 3.5k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 506 | 7% | 14 h | 4.8 h | 3.4k |
| Apr 8, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,365 | 31% | 2.8 h | 1.8 h | 3.3k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 175 | 2% | 23 h | – | 3.2k |
| Apr 2, 2016 | No storm report | 848 | 11% | 6.0 h | 3.8 h | 2.8k |
| Nov 21, 2024 | No storm report | 1,027 | 13% | 3.2 h | 3.5 h | 2.8k |
| Jun 15, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 486 | 6% | 12 h | 11 h | 2.8k |
| Aug 26, 2016 | No storm report | 2,103 | 27% | 1.2 h | 1.5 h | 2.6k |
| Feb 19, 2016 | No storm report | 728 | 9% | 7.8 h | 5.2 h | 2.6k |
| Dec 5, 2023 | No storm report | 695 | 9% | 5.8 h | 5.5 h | 2.6k |
| Jan 19, 2019 | No storm report | 261 | 3% | 10 h | – | 2.5k |
| Aug 27, 2021 | No storm report | 2,151 | 28% | 2.5 h | 30 min | 2.3k |
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 Rush from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 61%
- No storm on record 29%
- Ice storm 5.9%
- Tornadoes 1.6%
- Tropical storm 1.3%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Rush
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 |
| NineStar Connect | Cooperative | 193 | 98 | 1.65 | 16.5 | 19k |
| RushShelby Energy | Cooperative | 543 | 194 | 2.87 | 16.4 | 15k |
| Town of Knightstown | IN | – | – | – | – | 14k |
| Decatur County Rural E M C | Cooperative | 463 | 220 | 2.76 | 15.0 | 8.2k |
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 7,695 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 →