County annual report · FIPS 19041
2016 Clay County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Clay County, IA went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 4,145 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 94th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2114th 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 Clay 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 | April 30, 2016 19:30 | May 1, 2016 02:30 | 7h | 386 | 1,359 |
| 2 | April 24, 2016 23:00 | April 25, 2016 00:15 | 1h 15m | 365 | 365 |
| 3 | April 11, 2016 15:00 | April 11, 2016 19:30 | 4h 30m | 304 | 500 |
| 4 | August 26, 2016 05:45 | August 26, 2016 07:30 | 1h 45m | 157 | 236 |
| 5 | September 16, 2016 02:45 | September 16, 2016 13:00 | 10h 15m | 126 | 44 |
| 6 | April 28, 2016 22:30 | April 29, 2016 01:30 | 3h | 111 | 333 |
| 7 | June 18, 2016 02:00 | June 18, 2016 05:15 | 3h 15m | 101 | 295 |
| 8 | July 7, 2016 06:15 | July 7, 2016 09:15 | 3h | 49 | 100 |
| 9 | August 1, 2016 16:15 | August 1, 2016 19:15 | 3h | 47 | 61 |
| 10 | October 28, 2016 19:15 | October 28, 2016 20:30 | 1h 15m | 43 | 24 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 7 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 Clay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2016 | 55 min | 0.50 | 54 min | 0.49 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spencer - (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 ÷ 13,668 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county