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2015 Woodbury County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Woodbury County, IA went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.1 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2028th 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 Woodbury 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 | October 11, 2015 19:30 | October 12, 2015 04:15 | 8h 45m | 2,379 | 1,330 |
| 2 | August 17, 2015 00:15 | August 18, 2015 03:45 | 1d 3h | 1,100 | 3,562 |
| 3 | August 18, 2015 06:15 | August 18, 2015 18:30 | 12h 15m | 356 | 782 |
| 4 | September 8, 2015 08:15 | September 8, 2015 12:45 | 4h 30m | 317 | 1,043 |
| 5 | September 20, 2015 11:15 | September 20, 2015 22:15 | 11h | 208 | 1,013 |
| 6 | September 23, 2015 15:00 | September 23, 2015 16:00 | 1h | 188 | 188 |
| 7 | November 11, 2015 17:00 | November 11, 2015 19:15 | 2h 15m | 160 | 58 |
| 8 | August 10, 2015 03:15 | August 10, 2015 06:15 | 3h | 125 | 127 |
| 9 | August 31, 2015 22:00 | August 31, 2015 23:15 | 1h 15m | 94 | 94 |
| 10 | August 12, 2015 10:15 | August 12, 2015 13:15 | 3h | 92 | 142 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 8 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Woodbury 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 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2015 | 36 min | 0.48 | 36 min | 0.48 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Woodbury County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Anthon - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sergeant Bluff - (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 ÷ 25,626 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. Woodbury County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Woodbury 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/woodbury-county