Power outage history
Clay County Indiana
8.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
14th most of 90 in Indiana 1.2× 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 Clay's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 31 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Clay, 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 30, 2023 | No storm report | 7,811 | 59% | 3.4 d | 3.1 d | 347k |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,203 | 32% | 3.1 d | 2.1 d | 99k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,015 | 23% | 46 h | 42 h | 51k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 1,028 | 8% | 26 h | 10 h | 17k |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 10,399 | 79% | 1.8 h | 12 min | 13k |
| Mar 31, 2023 | No storm report | 1,090 | 8% | 21 h | 19 h | 11k |
| Apr 19, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,961 | 15% | 11 h | 6.0 h | 11k |
| Jul 13, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,339 | 10% | 18 h | 13 h | 10k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | No storm report | 2,247 | 17% | 11 h | 10 h | 9.8k |
| Jun 10, 2018 | No storm report | 2,224 | 17% | 12 h | 7.2 h | 9.3k |
| Jun 22, 2020 | No storm report | 772 | 6% | 17 h | 15 h | 8.7k |
| Oct 20, 2018 | No storm report | 2,725 | 21% | 19 h | 12 min | 8.4k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | No storm report | 749 | 6% | 19 h | 20 h | 6.5k |
| Apr 2, 2016 | No storm report | 2,091 | 16% | 8.5 h | 3.2 h | 5.7k |
| Nov 18, 2016 | No storm report | 1,019 | 8% | 9.5 h | 5.2 h | 5.7k |
| Apr 26, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 903 | 7% | 13 h | 5.2 h | 5.6k |
| Dec 14, 2025 | Winter storm | 1,607 | 12% | 4.5 h | 3.5 h | 5.3k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | No storm report | 831 | 6% | 20 h | 9.5 h | 5.0k |
| Aug 30, 2016 | No storm report | 3,580 | 27% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 4.7k |
| Sep 8, 2018 | Flooding | 2,589 | 20% | 3.5 h | 1.0 h | 4.5k |
| Jun 23, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,427 | 11% | 5.5 h | 3.5 h | 4.4k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | No storm report | 411 | 3% | 16 h | – | 4.3k |
| Jun 15, 2016 | No storm report | 3,787 | 29% | 1.8 h | 48 min | 3.9k |
| May 11, 2017 | No storm report | 1,733 | 13% | 4.8 h | 2.0 h | 3.9k |
| Jul 27, 2020 | No storm report | 1,271 | 10% | 3.5 h | 2.2 h | 3.8k |
| Feb 28, 2016 | No storm report | 2,141 | 16% | 2.2 h | 48 min | 3.7k |
| Aug 28, 2022 | No storm report | 719 | 5% | 7.0 h | 3.8 h | 3.7k |
| Sep 17, 2015 | No storm report | 1,850 | 14% | 3.0 h | 4.0 h | 3.6k |
| Jun 27, 2021 | No storm report | 1,032 | 8% | 3.2 h | 3.2 h | 3.4k |
| May 21, 2017 | No storm report | 739 | 6% | 4.5 h | 5.8 h | 3.3k |
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 Clay from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 70%
- Thunderstorms 25%
- Tropical storm 2.2%
- Flooding 1.1%
- Winter storm 0.8%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Clay
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 |
| Parke County Rural E M C | IN | 624 | 624 | 4.94 | 13.5 | 153k |
| South Central Indiana REMC | Cooperative | 1,196 | 349 | 3.96 | 17.5 | 35k |
| Utilities Dist-Western IN REMC | Cooperative | 763 | 363 | 3.43 | 15.7 | 19k |
| Western Indiana Energy REMC | Cooperative | 408 | 287 | 2.31 | 14.7 | 15k |
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 13,163 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 →