St. Joseph County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

St. Joseph County, Indiana had 38 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.96 times the US outage time per person and 1.60 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 12 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

65 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Janhardest months

June and January made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 1, 2021, reached 22,952 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Indiana counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	535,242	125	2
2016	593,155	108	4
2017	298,904	119	3
2018	487,926	128	5
2019	807,382	120	4
2020	809,519	110	5
2021	1,572,098	100	8
2022	493,786	109	5
2023	201,470	77	2

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jan 1, 2021	27.0	22,952	409,920
Jan 2, 2021	48.8	14,483	355,139
Sep 28, 2019	62.8	16,266	312,605
May 24, 2020	58.8	11,939	298,178
Dec 28, 2015	55.5	8,707	211,920

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.