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2015 Taylor County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Taylor County, IA went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 2,177 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.1 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1924th 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 Taylor 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 11, 2015 20:30 | November 12, 2015 14:45 | 18h 15m | 170 | 839 |
| 2 | November 27, 2015 17:00 | November 27, 2015 18:45 | 1h 45m | 132 | 227 |
| 3 | August 9, 2015 07:00 | August 9, 2015 20:30 | 13h 30m | 131 | 432 |
| 4 | August 1, 2015 00:30 | August 1, 2015 02:30 | 2h | 126 | 149 |
| 5 | August 23, 2015 20:15 | August 23, 2015 23:00 | 2h 45m | 46 | 115 |
| 6 | August 19, 2015 20:45 | August 20, 2015 00:00 | 3h 15m | 43 | 66 |
| 7 | November 27, 2015 02:15 | November 27, 2015 04:30 | 2h 15m | 30 | 49 |
| 8 | December 10, 2015 06:15 | December 10, 2015 20:45 | 14h 30m | 20 | 41 |
| 9 | August 23, 2015 02:15 | August 23, 2015 13:15 | 11h | 15 | 39 |
| 10 | December 19, 2015 20:30 | December 19, 2015 22:45 | 2h 15m | 15 | 16 |
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 Taylor 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 |
| Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2015 | 1.6 hrs | 1.15 | 66 min | 0.86 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lenox - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,951 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. Taylor County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Taylor 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/taylor-county