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2016 Fayette County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Fayette County, IA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1065th 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 Fayette 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 12, 2016 19:00 | July 12, 2016 19:30 | 30m | 2,816 | 771 |
| 2 | May 26, 2016 10:00 | May 26, 2016 20:15 | 10h 15m | 2,730 | 8,635 |
| 3 | July 18, 2016 15:30 | July 18, 2016 16:30 | 1h | 2,551 | 2,551 |
| 4 | June 12, 2016 09:30 | June 12, 2016 11:45 | 2h 15m | 1,648 | 3,408 |
| 5 | July 17, 2016 09:45 | July 17, 2016 16:00 | 6h 15m | 963 | 2,723 |
| 6 | June 9, 2016 13:30 | June 9, 2016 15:15 | 1h 45m | 542 | 141 |
| 7 | July 7, 2016 09:45 | July 7, 2016 10:45 | 1h | 524 | 398 |
| 8 | July 23, 2016 15:15 | July 25, 2016 15:30 | 2d | 447 | 897 |
| 9 | May 15, 2016 02:45 | May 15, 2016 06:30 | 3h 45m | 406 | 428 |
| 10 | July 6, 2016 03:30 | July 6, 2016 08:15 | 4h 45m | 406 | 453 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 14 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 | 89 min | 1.07 |
| Allamakee-Clayton El Coop, Inc | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 0.89 | 2.0 hrs | 0.89 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler County Rural Elec Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairbank - (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 ÷ 8,712 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county