Power outage history
Vigo County Indiana
10hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
5th most of 90 in Indiana 1.5× 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 Vigo'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 2.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Vigo, 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 | 39,807 | 77% | 4.3 d | 3.7 d | 2.4M |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 19,049 | 37% | 2.3 d | 47 h | 407k |
| Jul 12, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 18,968 | 37% | 2.3 d | 39 h | 333k |
| Jun 19, 2021 | Flooding | 13,723 | 27% | 43 h | 30 h | 190k |
| May 11, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 14,266 | 28% | 39 h | 26 h | 136k |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 8,629 | 17% | 2.1 d | 44 h | 130k |
| Apr 2, 2016 | No storm report | 4,212 | 8% | 36 h | 32 h | 81k |
| Jul 13, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 3,826 | 7% | 28 h | 22 h | 60k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 10,943 | 21% | 20 h | 10 h | 54k |
| Apr 8, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,723 | 7% | 17 h | 18 h | 34k |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Hurricane Helene | 6,404 | 12% | 17 h | 13 h | 28k |
| Jul 11, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 4,109 | 8% | 21 h | 22 h | 27k |
| Aug 7, 2021 | No storm report | 5,019 | 10% | 4.8 h | 2.8 h | 24k |
| May 15, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,382 | 5% | 24 h | – | 23k |
| Oct 20, 2018 | No storm report | 2,003 | 4% | 15 h | – | 17k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,660 | 3% | 15 h | – | 16k |
| Dec 14, 2015 | No storm report | 2,420 | 5% | 8.0 h | – | 13k |
| Sep 3, 2020 | No storm report | 3,474 | 7% | 4.2 h | 9.0 h | 12k |
| Jul 11, 2017 | No storm report | 3,191 | 6% | 4.0 h | 2.5 h | 12k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | No storm report | 2,283 | 4% | 10 h | – | 11k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,585 | 5% | 8.0 h | 11 h | 11k |
| Jun 10, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 3,451 | 7% | 7.5 h | 6.8 h | 11k |
| Oct 11, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 4,030 | 8% | 7.0 h | 5.8 h | 11k |
| Mar 14, 2019 | No storm report | 2,430 | 5% | 9.2 h | – | 11k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 2,386 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 10k |
| Jun 27, 2025 | No storm report | 1,137 | 2% | 11 h | – | 9.5k |
| Jun 5, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,470 | 3% | 8.5 h | – | 8.9k |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Flooding | 2,260 | 4% | 6.0 h | – | 8.8k |
| Mar 15, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,626 | 5% | 5.5 h | 6.5 h | 8.8k |
| Jul 16, 2022 | No storm report | 2,229 | 4% | 10 h | – | 8.6k |
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 Vigo from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 74%
- Thunderstorms 20%
- Flooding 5.3%
- Tropical storm 0.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Vigo
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 |
| 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.
Next door
Neighbouring 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 51,609 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 →