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

Power outage history

Starke County Indiana

9.1hours

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

7th most of 90 in Indiana 1.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Jul 16, 2024 93% of customers out · 90% back in 10 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 9.1h / yr State average 4.6 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.9days Mar 30, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 38% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 26 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,009 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 Starke's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 26 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Starke, hours without power per customer

StarkeUS median countyIndiana average
0 10 20 30 2.4 ’15 1.4 ’16 1.8 ’17 1.3 ’18 1.9 ’19 3.9 ’20 12 ’21 8.2 ’22 4.8 ’23 26 ’24 14 ’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
Jul 15, 2024 No storm report 9,306 93% 2.9 d 10 h 143k
Mar 30, 2025 Thunderstorms 5,377 54% 3.9 d 20 h 71k
Aug 29, 2022 Thunderstorms 5,289 53% 28 h 21 h 46k
Jun 26, 2021 Thunderstorms 3,415 34% 17 h 11 h 33k
Jun 25, 2024 No storm report 4,151 41% 21 h 5.2 h 20k
Jan 1, 2021 Winter storm 1,318 13% 28 h 7.0 h 18k
Jul 10, 2024 Hurricane Beryl 4,038 40% 7.5 h 5.5 h 16k
Jun 20, 2021 Thunderstorms 1,765 18% 19 h 6.2 h 15k
May 16, 2025 No storm report 2,764 28% 14 h 6.8 h 15k
Oct 30, 2024 No storm report 1,362 14% 15 h 18 h 13k
Dec 28, 2015 Winter storm 3,216 32% 18 h 2.5 h 12k
Jul 29, 2023 No storm report 1,697 17% 10 h 8.5 h 12k

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 +6h 90% by +10h

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 Starke from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 62%
  • Thunderstorms 29%
  • Winter storm 3.4%
  • Tropical storm 3.2%
  • Windstorm 1.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Starke

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
Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co Investor Owned 532 178 1.32 22.1 434k
Marshall County Rural E M C IN – – – 14.8 74k
Fulton County Rural E M C IN – – – – 69k
Kankakee Valley Rural E M C Cooperative 415 401 6.50 14.7 19k
Jasper County Rural E M C Cooperative 410 104 3.29 16.1 7.8k

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+

All Indiana counties →

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 10,009 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 →