Fountain County, Indiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fountain County, Indiana had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.67 times the US outage time per person and 1.11 times the Indiana rate. It ranks 28 of 90 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

29 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Junhardest months

October and June made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 11, 2021, reached 2,964 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 29.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	13,128	5	1
2016	9,064	8	1
2017	4,621	3	0
2018	25,206	9	1
2019	40,172	30	1
2020	32,618	17	2
2021	68,613	12	2
2022	7,256	10	0
2023	47,655	18	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
Oct 11, 2021	29.0	2,964	46,436
Apr 1, 2023	16.0	1,665	23,260
Oct 20, 2018	10.5	3,431	18,406
Dec 11, 2021	17.8	1,678	15,560
Jun 30, 2023	16.8	1,583	7,825

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.