Power outage history
Whitley County Indiana
2.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
57th most of 90 in Indiana 55% 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 Whitley's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Whitley, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 11,561 | 38% | 2.7 d | 2.3 d | 382k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 7,043 | 23% | 32 h | 23 h | 54k |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 5,054 | 17% | 5.8 h | 7.5 h | 17k |
| Dec 28, 2015 | Winter storm | 1,155 | 4% | 12 h | – | 10k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 556 | 2% | 19 h | – | 10k |
| Feb 21, 2015 | No storm report | 1,542 | 5% | 6.5 h | 48 min | 10k |
| Oct 17, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,873 | 6% | 8.8 h | 6.8 h | 8.2k |
| Apr 24, 2025 | No storm report | 2,283 | 7% | 6.5 h | 6.2 h | 8.2k |
| Jun 27, 2015 | No storm report | 1,545 | 5% | 5.5 h | 4.5 h | 7.3k |
| Nov 29, 2024 | No storm report | 5,044 | 17% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 6.3k |
| Apr 29, 2021 | No storm report | 1,616 | 5% | 3.5 h | 3.2 h | 5.7k |
| Mar 6, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,475 | 5% | 4.8 h | – | 5.3k |
| May 7, 2019 | No storm report | 1,520 | 5% | 3.5 h | – | 5.3k |
| Sep 11, 2023 | No storm report | 1,124 | 4% | 4.5 h | – | 5.0k |
| Jun 29, 2020 | No storm report | 719 | 2% | 7.8 h | – | 4.9k |
| Nov 27, 2016 | No storm report | 1,558 | 5% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 4.7k |
| Oct 27, 2019 | Tropical Storm Olga | 1,559 | 5% | 4.5 h | 1.5 h | 4.4k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,582 | 5% | 4.0 h | 9.5 h | 4.2k |
| May 14, 2020 | No storm report | 3,302 | 11% | 3.0 h | 8.5 h | 3.6k |
| May 7, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,733 | 15% | 1.5 h | 1.2 h | 3.3k |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,166 | 4% | 3.0 h | – | 2.9k |
| May 30, 2021 | No storm report | 1,552 | 5% | 1.8 h | 13 h | 2.7k |
| Jun 20, 2024 | No storm report | 2,699 | 9% | 1.0 h | 12 min | 2.7k |
| Oct 4, 2020 | No storm report | 420 | 1% | 6.2 h | – | 2.6k |
| Nov 21, 2015 | Winter storm | 715 | 2% | 3.8 h | – | 2.5k |
| Oct 10, 2023 | No storm report | 2,360 | 8% | 1.2 h | 4.2 h | 2.5k |
| Jun 26, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,580 | 5% | 4.0 h | 2.2 h | 2.3k |
| Jun 26, 2021 | No storm report | 414 | 1% | 5.2 h | – | 2.2k |
| Jun 30, 2021 | No storm report | 2,713 | 9% | 2.0 h | 48 min | 2.1k |
| Jan 13, 2024 | No storm report | 658 | 2% | 3.2 h | – | 2.1k |
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 Whitley from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 79%
- No storm on record 18%
- Winter storm 1.9%
- Tropical storm 0.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Whitley
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 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | Investor Owned | 283 | 83 | 0.97 | 17.2 | 425k |
| City of Columbia City | IN | – | – | – | 10.3 | 48k |
| Northeastern Rural E M C | Cooperative | 57 | 57 | 0.92 | 15.4 | 31k |
| Heartland REMC | Cooperative | – | – | – | 14.5 | 18k |
| Kosciusko County Rural E M C | Cooperative | 268 | 233 | 1.98 | 13.1 | 17k |
| Noble County R E M C | Cooperative | 135 | 107 | 1.29 | 13.4 | 11k |
| Town of South Whitley | IN | – | – | – | – | 9.5k |
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
- Kosciusko 8.2 h
- Allen 3.7 h
- Whitley (this county) 2.9 h
- Wabash 2.2 h
- Noble 1.9 h
- Huntington 1.5 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 30,564 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 →