City of Jasper, IN
How often City of Jasper goes out
City of Jasper customers in Indiana rarely lose power at all: 0.2 interruptions last year, adding up to just 23 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 93% less outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here typically run short, about 1.8 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Jasper customers need a generator
Serving 7,909 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Jasper customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How City of Jasper's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Jasper files with federal regulators every year - serving 7,909 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Indiana is covered too: see Indiana's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.