Jasper County Rural E M C, IN
Jasper County Rural E M C's outage record
Jasper County Rural E M C customers in Indiana lost power 3.3 times last year, 6.8 hours total - well above the national norm for outage time. That is 19% more outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Jasper County Rural E M C looks like
2.1 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Jasper County Rural E M C
Serving 9,852 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Jasper County Rural E M C's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Jasper County Rural E M C files with federal regulators every year - serving 9,852 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Indiana as a whole, across every utility that filed: Indiana's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.