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2016 Adams County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Adams County, IA went without power for an average of 8.4 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 416th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 21, 2016 21:30 | July 23, 2016 02:30 | 1d 5h | 1,444 | 6,161 |
| 2 | July 17, 2016 12:45 | July 17, 2016 16:15 | 3h 30m | 702 | 1,383 |
| 3 | August 17, 2016 04:45 | August 17, 2016 08:30 | 3h 45m | 591 | 2,073 |
| 4 | October 12, 2016 10:30 | October 12, 2016 11:00 | 30m | 294 | 147 |
| 5 | September 20, 2016 01:45 | September 20, 2016 03:45 | 2h | 246 | 492 |
| 6 | September 8, 2016 05:15 | September 8, 2016 21:15 | 16h | 240 | 2,078 |
| 7 | August 24, 2016 05:00 | August 24, 2016 12:30 | 7h 30m | 194 | 301 |
| 8 | July 8, 2016 08:45 | July 11, 2016 15:45 | 3d 7h | 161 | 141 |
| 9 | October 22, 2016 15:00 | October 22, 2016 15:30 | 30m | 156 | 78 |
| 10 | May 31, 2016 00:30 | May 31, 2016 04:00 | 3h 30m | 147 | 295 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Adams County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 3.6 hrs | 1.64 | 83 min | 0.90 |
| Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2016 | 2.4 hrs | 1.67 | 1.7 hrs | 1.35 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Corning - (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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,844 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. Adams County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Adams County, IA annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/iowa/adams-county