Power outage history
Howard County Indiana
3.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
55th most of 90 in Indiana 51% 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 Howard's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.2 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Howard, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 2016 | Tornadoes | 26,416 | 64% | 3.7 d | 2.8 d | 662k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 8,622 | 21% | 29 h | 21 h | 131k |
| Jun 23, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 2,684 | 6% | 2.4 d | 2.2 d | 52k |
| Jul 29, 2023 | No storm report | 2,564 | 6% | 23 h | 15 h | 33k |
| Apr 2, 2016 | Windstorm | 2,707 | 7% | 20 h | 14 h | 33k |
| Jul 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 8,470 | 20% | 7.8 h | 4.8 h | 30k |
| Jul 16, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,084 | 10% | 18 h | 16 h | 29k |
| Nov 1, 2015 | No storm report | 13,616 | 33% | 2.5 h | 2.2 h | 29k |
| Aug 23, 2019 | No storm report | 4,836 | 12% | 5.2 h | 4.8 h | 25k |
| Jul 23, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,406 | 8% | 12 h | 11 h | 20k |
| Mar 31, 2023 | Tornadoes | 3,283 | 8% | 20 h | 22 h | 19k |
| Jul 20, 2018 | No storm report | 3,887 | 9% | 6.5 h | 5.0 h | 18k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | Windstorm | 3,185 | 8% | 12 h | 2.8 h | 17k |
| Jan 25, 2021 | No storm report | 2,604 | 6% | 9.8 h | 6.0 h | 16k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | No storm report | 4,151 | 10% | 5.8 h | 2.8 h | 15k |
| Sep 19, 2018 | No storm report | 11,752 | 28% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 14k |
| May 26, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,596 | 6% | 9.2 h | 9.0 h | 14k |
| Dec 20, 2022 | No storm report | 10,010 | 24% | 1.8 h | 1.0 h | 13k |
| Dec 9, 2023 | No storm report | 4,977 | 12% | 3.2 h | 3.0 h | 13k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | Windstorm | 2,043 | 5% | 12 h | – | 13k |
| Oct 2, 2023 | No storm report | 4,964 | 12% | 3.5 h | 3.0 h | 12k |
| Apr 5, 2025 | No storm report | 1,733 | 4% | 8.8 h | – | 11k |
| Jun 14, 2017 | No storm report | 2,413 | 6% | 11 h | 9.0 h | 11k |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Hurricane Beryl | 3,325 | 8% | 7.8 h | 7.8 h | 11k |
| Nov 28, 2016 | No storm report | 1,975 | 5% | 7.5 h | – | 9.5k |
| Jul 10, 2017 | Flooding | 3,166 | 8% | 5.0 h | 4.0 h | 9.3k |
| Jul 21, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,384 | 8% | 5.2 h | 4.2 h | 8.8k |
| Jul 11, 2017 | Flooding | 2,469 | 6% | 4.2 h | 2.8 h | 8.7k |
| May 17, 2020 | No storm report | 4,436 | 11% | 2.0 h | 12 min | 8.3k |
| May 28, 2019 | Flooding | 2,785 | 7% | 7.0 h | 7.2 h | 8.2k |
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 Howard from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 56%
- Thunderstorms 34%
- Windstorm 3.9%
- Tornadoes 2.5%
- Tropical storm 1.7%
- Flooding 1.1%
- Winter storm 0.7%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Howard
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 |
| Carroll-White REMC | Cooperative | 839 | 553 | – | 15.4 | 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 41,367 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 →