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Who serves LaPorte County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include NIPSCO, Indiana Michigan Power and Kankakee Valley REMC, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Town of Kingsford Heights also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — LaPorte County, IN
⚡ Power here was restored about 22 hours ago — the outage peaked at 337 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 337 customers, restored in ~16.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 19 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 10.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 27, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — LaPorte County, IN
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
721 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
5 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
4.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Indiana norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.8 hr.
Largest on record: ~17,383 customers out in January 2021, restored after about 2.8 days. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in LaPorte County
Communities in LaPorte County include Michigan City, Westville, Trail Creek, Kingsford Heights, Long Beach, Wanatah, La Crosse and Michiana Shores. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in LaPorte County, IN?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of LaPorte include NIPSCO, Indiana Michigan Power, Kankakee Valley REMC and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
