LaPorte County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

LaPorte County, Indiana had 43 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.08 times the US outage time per person and 1.79 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 8 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

57 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Julhardest months

January and July made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 1, 2021, reached 17,383 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.2 hours.

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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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	375,223	103	3
2016	290,120	105	5
2017	130,918	88	2
2018	211,456	78	5
2019	138,681	63	3
2020	265,682	77	7
2021	852,477	114	8
2022	185,653	81	5
2023	188,574	65	5

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	27.2	17,383	319,600
Jan 2, 2021	44.5	10,723	193,961
Dec 28, 2015	57.0	5,187	120,558
Aug 10, 2020	41.2	5,209	91,030
Jul 19, 2015	40.8	9,846	88,206

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.