County annual report · FIPS 19033
2016 Cerro Gordo County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cerro Gordo County, IA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1739th 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 Cerro Gordo 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 8, 2016 00:15 | July 8, 2016 04:15 | 4h | 2,992 | 1,537 |
| 2 | September 28, 2016 14:00 | September 28, 2016 16:30 | 2h 30m | 2,609 | 2,431 |
| 3 | February 25, 2016 21:45 | February 25, 2016 22:00 | 15m | 2,023 | 506 |
| 4 | April 6, 2016 20:00 | April 6, 2016 21:00 | 1h | 2,008 | 509 |
| 5 | April 5, 2016 23:15 | April 5, 2016 23:30 | 15m | 2,002 | 501 |
| 6 | December 5, 2016 01:30 | December 5, 2016 02:45 | 1h 15m | 1,794 | 2,238 |
| 7 | August 4, 2016 15:15 | August 4, 2016 22:15 | 7h | 1,789 | 1,173 |
| 8 | August 18, 2016 13:45 | August 18, 2016 18:45 | 5h | 1,502 | 1,559 |
| 9 | March 24, 2016 09:45 | March 25, 2016 00:45 | 15h | 1,043 | 2,102 |
| 10 | September 21, 2016 21:15 | September 26, 2016 17:45 | 4d 20h | 913 | 3,823 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 31 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Cerro Gordo 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 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2016 | 89 min | 0.86 | 89 min | 0.86 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler County Rural Elec Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (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 ÷ 29,435 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. Cerro Gordo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cerro Gordo 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/cerro-gordo-county