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2015 Ida County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Ida County, IA went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 2,567 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.1 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1876th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ida County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 17, 2015 09:45 | November 17, 2015 13:30 | 3h 45m | 532 | 991 |
| 2 | November 12, 2015 14:00 | November 12, 2015 14:15 | 15m | 220 | 55 |
| 3 | November 26, 2015 16:45 | November 27, 2015 05:30 | 12h 45m | 177 | 1,205 |
| 4 | November 27, 2015 20:45 | November 27, 2015 21:45 | 1h | 177 | 89 |
| 5 | November 6, 2015 22:30 | November 6, 2015 22:45 | 15m | 24 | 6 |
| 6 | December 5, 2015 18:00 | December 5, 2015 21:00 | 3h | 24 | 70 |
| 7 | August 7, 2015 16:00 | August 7, 2015 16:30 | 30m | 14 | 7 |
| 8 | August 19, 2015 22:30 | August 20, 2015 00:45 | 2h 15m | 14 | 19 |
| 9 | September 1, 2015 14:00 | September 1, 2015 17:45 | 3h 45m | 10 | 38 |
| 10 | September 3, 2015 00:45 | September 3, 2015 03:45 | 3h | 7 | 14 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 4 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Ida County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.05 | 87 min | 0.88 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2015 | 62 min | 0.53 | 53 min | 0.50 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2015 | 36 min | 0.48 | 36 min | 0.48 |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Woodbury County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Iowa's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,231 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Ida County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ida County, IA annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/iowa/ida-county