2015 Iowa Power Outage Report

In 2015, the average Iowa customer went without power for about 1.1 hours, the 41st worst of 49 states (US average 2.8 hours). Figures from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, including major storm days.

Avg hrs / customer

1.1

vs prior year

no earlier year loaded

Customer-hours out

1.7M

Peak customers out

14,801

across the state at once

EAGLE-I coverage

n/a

of IA customers

Counties reporting

Iowa year over year

Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Month by month, 2015

Customer-hours without power across Iowa; June was the worst.

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All 99 Iowa counties, 2015

Ranked by average hours without power per customer. Each county links to its annual report.

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#	County	Hrs / customer	Customer-hours	Customers	Peak out	Events
1	Keokuk County	6.2	29K	4,684	4,207	184
2	Des Moines County	6.1	110K	18,207	6,275	359
3	Van Buren County	4.9	15K	3,146	487	89
4	Henry County	4.3	51K	11,923	2,287	244
5	Calhoun County	4.1	17K	4,092	2,026	54
6	Clinton County	3.7	80K	21,505	2,178	313
7	Greene County	3.7	13K	3,417	2,683	105
8	Guthrie County	3.7	20K	5,390	1,839	83
9	Lee County	3.4	52K	15,486	3,067	340
10	Lucas County	3.3	14K	4,225	1,990	147
11	Washington County	3.3	32K	9,700	2,460	263
12	Jefferson County	3.1	21K	6,879	3,906	169
13	Clarke County	3.1	13K	4,290	1,131	110
14	Iowa County	3.1	21K	6,965	2,021	180
15	Worth County	2.9	6,616	2,289	802	130
16	Audubon County	2.4	6,134	2,511	868	45
17	Ringgold County	2.3	5,787	2,511	405	91
18	Delaware County	2.2	16K	7,035	2,270	114
19	Clayton County	2.2	23K	10,421	3,186	113
20	Marshall County	2.1	33K	15,945	4,058	315
21	Allamakee County	2.0	14K	6,750	2,707	103
22	Davis County	2.0	9,495	4,718	362	52
23	Louisa County	2.0	9,041	4,554	1,711	145
24	Boone County	1.9	21K	10,670	2,578	243
25	Appanoose County	1.9	12K	6,572	826	223
26	Tama County	1.9	15K	8,169	1,471	149
27	Pocahontas County	1.8	5,678	3,159	768	91
28	Poweshiek County	1.8	12K	6,708	1,107	256
29	Carroll County	1.7	15K	8,666	1,401	97
30	Wapello County	1.7	38K	21,960	3,108	383
31	Jasper County	1.7	27K	15,566	2,718	347
32	Cedar County	1.7	15K	8,986	1,864	144
33	Benton County	1.6	21K	13,498	2,532	193
34	Hancock County	1.6	8,613	5,489	1,116	195
35	Wayne County	1.6	4,577	2,947	442	114
36	Palo Alto County	1.4	6,039	4,166	1,107	62
37	Hardin County	1.4	9,757	6,885	1,147	158
38	Scott County	1.4	95K	67,611	4,270	415
39	Shelby County	1.3	9,437	7,164	1,017	35
40	Linn County	1.3	152K	118,247	7,658	790
41	Fayette County	1.3	11K	8,712	956	160
42	Sac County	1.2	4,588	3,895	544	36
43	Howard County	1.2	4,824	4,177	1,054	78
44	Dubuque County	1.1	51K	46,546	4,536	489
45	Dickinson County	1.1	7,259	6,731	1,833	156
46	Adair County	1.0	3,825	3,686	524	25
47	Crawford County	1.0	9,498	9,213	965	35
48	Decatur County	1.0	3,368	3,356	742	98
49	Monroe County	1.0	4,009	4,056	379	42
50	Adams County	1.0	1,799	1,844	191	35
51	Floyd County	0.9	7,312	7,886	1,207	170
52	Winneshiek County	0.9	8,250	9,369	1,171	166
53	Pottawattamie County	0.8	42K	51,132	4,231	395
54	Cerro Gordo County	0.8	24K	29,435	10,571	397
55	Harrison County	0.8	6,113	7,620	303	107
56	Fremont County	0.8	3,410	4,285	1,019	76
57	Ida County	0.8	2,567	3,231	532	31
58	Union County	0.8	5,122	6,645	260	184
59	Kossuth County	0.8	5,909	7,698	767	127
60	Montgomery County	0.8	4,367	5,724	217	90
61	Humboldt County	0.7	2,615	3,507	1,238	65
62	Taylor County	0.7	2,177	2,951	170	55
63	Jones County	0.7	6,041	8,507	1,453	163
64	Mahaska County	0.7	5,742	8,162	499	177
65	Johnson County	0.7	54K	77,769	4,054	395
66	Mills County	0.7	4,840	7,270	457	166
67	Wright County	0.6	3,579	5,538	479	110
68	Dallas County	0.6	37K	58,451	7,066	365
69	Buchanan County	0.6	7,663	12,254	1,039	106
70	Butler County	0.6	2,985	4,791	717	87
71	Grundy County	0.6	3,297	5,507	1,543	106
72	Woodbury County	0.6	14K	25,626	2,379	256
73	Buena Vista County	0.6	6,523	11,607	1,328	121
74	Osceola County	0.6	1,980	3,588	473	26
75	Warren County	0.5	13K	23,806	910	191
76	Polk County	0.5	153K	287,095	8,774	367
77	Marion County	0.5	9,251	19,876	2,445	124
78	Madison County	0.4	4,026	9,366	355	87
79	Chickasaw County	0.4	2,948	6,991	399	56
80	Franklin County	0.4	1,849	4,637	344	92
81	Winnebago County	0.4	2,870	7,213	351	59
82	Mitchell County	0.4	2,423	6,347	763	69
83	Black Hawk County	0.4	21K	57,533	2,391	329
84	Story County	0.3	22K	63,396	1,579	229
85	Page County	0.3	3,004	9,035	264	88
86	Jackson County	0.3	3,326	10,302	532	49
87	Cass County	0.3	3,308	10,329	174	57
88	Clay County	0.3	3,842	13,668	505	77
89	Webster County	0.3	5,570	20,411	486	178
90	Hamilton County	0.3	2,318	9,205	252	63
91	O'Brien County	0.2	1,130	5,030	649	48
92	Plymouth County	0.2	1,895	8,581	203	60
93	Sioux County	0.2	3,231	16,993	1,770	77
94	Muscatine County	0.2	5,392	30,353	409	57
95	Cherokee County	0.2	1,049	5,968	324	55
96	Emmet County	0.1	627	5,934	314	57
97	Bremer County	0.1	1,414	16,028	457	73
98	Monona County	0.1	429	7,388	127	18
99	Lyon County	0.0	208	5,090	349	13

Biggest Iowa outages of 2015

Up to 25 county outage episodes with the most customers out at once.

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#	County	Started (UTC)	Ended (UTC)	Duration	Peak out	Customer-hours
1	Cerro Gordo County, IA	September 10, 2015 00:00	September 10, 2015 01:15	1h 15m	10,571	2,644
2	Polk County, IA	September 21, 2015 14:15	September 23, 2015 05:15	1d 15h	8,774	11K
3	Polk County, IA	December 7, 2015 14:00	December 8, 2015 01:00	11h	8,597	9,390
4	Linn County, IA	May 22, 2015 05:45	May 22, 2015 08:15	2h 30m	7,658	8,190
5	Dallas County, IA	August 17, 2015 13:15	August 17, 2015 23:30	10h 15m	7,066	11K
6	Polk County, IA	November 11, 2015 14:30	November 13, 2015 04:15	1d 13h	6,799	30K
7	Des Moines County, IA	June 21, 2015 01:00	June 23, 2015 03:30	2d 2h	6,275	58K
8	Linn County, IA	June 7, 2015 21:15	June 8, 2015 02:45	5h 30m	5,348	7,694
9	Linn County, IA	June 18, 2015 21:15	June 18, 2015 23:30	2h 15m	5,293	2,648
10	Linn County, IA	June 23, 2015 23:15	June 23, 2015 23:45	30m	5,292	2,646
11	Linn County, IA	November 24, 2015 15:30	November 24, 2015 15:45	15m	5,200	1,300
12	Dallas County, IA	May 28, 2015 03:45	May 28, 2015 04:00	15m	4,886	1,222
13	Linn County, IA	February 1, 2015 03:15	February 2, 2015 05:45	1d 2h	4,710	17K
14	Dubuque County, IA	November 26, 2015 03:45	November 26, 2015 05:30	1h 45m	4,536	3,404
15	Scott County, IA	November 18, 2015 05:15	November 18, 2015 12:45	7h 30m	4,270	15K
16	Pottawattamie County, IA	September 23, 2015 09:00	September 24, 2015 08:45	23h 45m	4,231	11K
17	Keokuk County, IA	October 20, 2015 20:15	October 21, 2015 02:45	6h 30m	4,207	6,702
18	Scott County, IA	October 23, 2015 13:45	October 23, 2015 17:45	4h	4,178	2,072
19	Linn County, IA	December 10, 2015 16:45	December 10, 2015 20:30	3h 45m	4,100	3,011
20	Marshall County, IA	October 29, 2015 03:30	October 29, 2015 05:45	2h 15m	4,058	4,085
21	Linn County, IA	October 7, 2015 09:30	October 8, 2015 01:30	16h	4,056	6,769
22	Johnson County, IA	June 4, 2015 18:30	June 5, 2015 23:15	1d 4h	4,054	28K
23	Dubuque County, IA	May 29, 2015 20:30	May 29, 2015 23:30	3h	4,026	1,820
24	Scott County, IA	September 8, 2015 08:45	September 8, 2015 20:00	11h 15m	4,020	3,817
25	Jefferson County, IA	June 21, 2015 00:15	June 21, 2015 23:45	23h 30m	3,906	13K

EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Iowa's electricity customers in 2015; outages at utilities it does not see are not counted. Hours per customer divide outage customer-minutes by modeled county customers.

Iowa by year:2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016

Other states in 2015:WV WA MI NC RI LA OK NJ

Part of the 2015 US Power Outage Report.

Data from DOE EAGLE-I, every source we read.