When will the power be back in Lake Station, IN?

Lake Station is a city of about 13,033 residents in Lake County.

NIPSCO has reported outages for Lake Station by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Lake Station is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.

ZIP codes in Lake Station:

• 46405

Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Lake Station: the closest other places we track are Hobart, about 4 miles to the south; Portage, about 4 miles to the east; Gary, about 5 miles to the west; and Merrillville, about 8 miles to the southwest. Also nearby: Griffith (9 mi W), Highland (10 mi W), Chesterton (11 mi E), Schererville (11 mi SW), East Chicago (11 mi NW), Crown Point (12 mi S), Hammond (12 mi W) and Valparaiso (13 mi SE).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: northeast toward Michigan City (22 mi); east toward La Porte (28 mi); southwest toward St. John (14 mi); west toward Munster (13 mi); and northwest toward Evergreen Park, IL (25 mi).

Lake Station's last tracked outage began Sep 30, peaked at 101 customers out, and was restored in an hour. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 3 hours.

• Sep 30 — 101 customers out, restored in an hour
• Sep 29 — 101 customers out, restored in 2 hours
• Sep 19 — 58 customers out, restored in 2 hours
• Sep 18 — 26 customers out, restored in 5 hours