Power Out Map
– 0% of Fountain out 0 customers out in Indiana

Power outage history

Fountain County Indiana

7.9hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

16th most of 90 in Indiana 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Oct 11, 2021 53% of customers out · 90% back in 23 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 7.9h / yr State average 4.6 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 6.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 40hours Jun 30, 2023, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 49% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 15 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,608 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Fountain's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Fountain, hours without power per customer

FountainUS median countyIndiana average
0 5 10 15 20 3.6 ’15 3.1 ’16 2.3 ’17 5.9 ’18 9.2 ’19 7.9 ’20 15 ’21 2.6 ’22 10 ’23 4.4 ’24 8.8 ’25 US 6.6 IN 4.6

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
Oct 11, 2021 Thunderstorms 2,964 53% 37 h 23 h 47k
Mar 31, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,665 30% 16 h 15 h 23k
Oct 20, 2018 No storm report 3,431 61% 20 h 9.2 h 20k
Dec 11, 2021 Thunderstorms 1,678 30% 19 h 14 h 16k
Jun 18, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,091 19% 33 h 20 h 16k
Jun 21, 2015 Tropical Storm Bill 2,098 37% 15 h 12 h 10k
Jun 30, 2023 No storm report 1,583 28% 40 h 18 h 9.7k
Feb 6, 2020 No storm report 2,872 51% 5.0 h 4.2 h 7.5k
May 23, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,260 40% 11 h 4.2 h 7.3k
Aug 10, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,367 24% 21 h 3.0 h 7.2k
Aug 20, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,777 50% 6.2 h 3.5 h 6.8k
Jun 30, 2019 Thunderstorms 3,354 60% 9.8 h 1.5 h 6.1k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +14h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Fountain from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 51%
  • Thunderstorms 48%
  • Winter storm 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Fountain

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
Tipmont Rural Elec Member Corp Cooperative 216 75 1.80 16.4 30k
City of Covington IN – – – – 15k
Town of Veedersburg IN – – – – 10k

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

Across Indiana

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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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 5,608 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 →