Power outage history
Allen County Indiana
3.7hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
49th most of 90 in Indiana 44% 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 Allen'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 12 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Allen, 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 | 31,766 | 20% | 3.7 d | 2.9 d | 1.2M |
| Jun 27, 2015 | Windstorm | 30,226 | 19% | 45 h | 2.2 d | 792k |
| Jul 5, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 18,789 | 12% | 25 h | 21 h | 285k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 13,222 | 8% | 26 h | 24 h | 214k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 11,299 | 7% | 22 h | 22 h | 163k |
| Jul 14, 2015 | Flooding | 8,925 | 6% | 33 h | 36 h | 155k |
| Jun 29, 2015 | Flooding | 7,797 | 5% | 29 h | 33 h | 123k |
| Aug 11, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 8,192 | 5% | 14 h | 14 h | 75k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,540 | 4% | 14 h | 18 h | 70k |
| Apr 28, 2017 | No storm report | 5,458 | 3% | 24 h | 27 h | 65k |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 8,551 | 5% | 9.5 h | 8.2 h | 50k |
| Mar 8, 2017 | Windstorm | 6,550 | 4% | 12 h | 8.2 h | 50k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,999 | 3% | 17 h | – | 46k |
| Jul 16, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 5,867 | 4% | 9.0 h | 15 h | 39k |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 6,726 | 4% | 14 h | 3.0 h | 39k |
| Apr 26, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 4,887 | 3% | 14 h | – | 36k |
| Jul 31, 2017 | No storm report | 5,538 | 4% | 6.2 h | 5.2 h | 30k |
| Oct 11, 2015 | No storm report | 8,246 | 5% | 4.5 h | 3.2 h | 29k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | No storm report | 6,107 | 4% | 4.8 h | 4.2 h | 27k |
| May 18, 2019 | No storm report | 4,505 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 22k |
| Dec 28, 2015 | Winter storm | 2,061 | 1% | 11 h | – | 20k |
| Jun 27, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,515 | 2% | 8.0 h | – | 19k |
| Jul 21, 2019 | No storm report | 5,077 | 3% | 3.5 h | 1.8 h | 18k |
| Apr 2, 2016 | No storm report | 3,213 | 2% | 7.2 h | – | 17k |
| Mar 6, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,788 | 2% | 6.5 h | – | 16k |
| Aug 6, 2017 | No storm report | 3,390 | 2% | 6.0 h | – | 16k |
| Jan 9, 2015 | Winter storm | 5,528 | 4% | 3.2 h | 1.8 h | 16k |
| Jun 9, 2021 | No storm report | 6,646 | 4% | 2.5 h | 12 min | 16k |
| Dec 25, 2021 | No storm report | 2,021 | 1% | 7.5 h | – | 15k |
| Apr 27, 2018 | No storm report | 2,308 | 1% | 6.5 h | – | 15k |
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 Allen from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 76%
- No storm on record 22%
- Windstorm 0.8%
- Winter storm 0.7%
- Tropical storm 0.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Allen
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | Investor Owned | 283 | 83 | 0.97 | 17.2 | 425k |
| Northeastern Rural E M C | Cooperative | 57 | 57 | 0.92 | 15.4 | 31k |
| Heartland REMC | Cooperative | – | – | – | 14.5 | 18k |
| Noble County R E M C | Cooperative | 135 | 107 | 1.29 | 13.4 | 11k |
| Paulding-Putman Elec Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 14.1 | 4.0k |
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
- Van Wert, OH 6.9 h
- Paulding, OH 5.0 h
- Defiance, OH 3.8 h
- Allen (this county) 3.7 h
- Whitley 2.9 h
- Adams 2.5 h
- Noble 1.9 h
- Huntington 1.5 h
- DeKalb 1.5 h
- Wells 1.3 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 156,661 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 →