Vigo County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Vigo County, Indiana had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.78 times the US outage time per person and 2.96 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 4 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

104 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 77% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 30, 2023, reached 39,807 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 104.5 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	114,604	76	3
2016	222,376	80	2
2017	582,459	79	5
2018	96,059	59	4
2019	80,998	63	3
2020	187,073	42	3
2021	290,954	59	3
2022	68,472	43	3
2023	2,517,791	66	4

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
Jun 30, 2023	104.5	39,807	2,357,082
Jul 12, 2017	53.2	18,968	332,862
Jun 19, 2021	44.8	13,723	191,003
May 11, 2017	38.2	5,609	97,914
Apr 3, 2016	38.8	3,934	62,315

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.