When will the power be back in Bluffton, IN?
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Bluffton is a city of about 10,556 residents in Wells County.
Indiana Michigan Power has reported outages for Bluffton by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when Bluffton 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 Bluffton:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Bluffton: the closest other places we track are Decatur, about 14 miles to the northeast; Huntington, about 20 miles to the northwest; New Haven, about 24 miles to the north; and Fort Wayne, about 24 miles to the north. Also nearby: Marion (29 mi SW); Van Wert, OH (32 mi E); Huntertown (33 mi N); Columbia City (33 mi NW); Celina, OH (35 mi E); Wabash (35 mi W); Muncie (39 mi S); and Yorktown (43 mi SW).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Auburn (44 mi); northeast toward Defiance, OH (56 mi); east toward Lima, OH (56 mi); southeast toward Greenville, OH (53 mi); south toward New Castle (58 mi); southwest toward Anderson (53 mi); west toward Peru (47 mi); and northwest toward Warsaw (49 mi).
Who serves Bluffton?
We track live outage data from Indiana Electric Cooperatives ↗, Indiana Michigan Power and Duke Energy Indiana in Wells County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of Bluffton also serves parts of Wells County — we don't yet read its own live outage map. For the parent company's combined picture, see Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.
County context: across all of Wells County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 3 hr. The full record for Wells County
Common questions
How do I check the power outage status in Bluffton, IN?
To check your own street, search a Bluffton ZIP code — 46714 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show Bluffton specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Bluffton we have the city-level view: Indiana Michigan Power has published outages for Bluffton under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-09-18. When Bluffton is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Wells County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Bluffton.
