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2016 Ida County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ida County, IA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 9,068 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1050th 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 Ida 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 | May 9, 2016 21:00 | May 10, 2016 00:00 | 3h | 891 | 452 |
| 2 | July 7, 2016 05:30 | July 7, 2016 17:15 | 11h 45m | 877 | 3,065 |
| 3 | June 18, 2016 02:30 | June 18, 2016 11:15 | 8h 45m | 606 | 929 |
| 4 | March 7, 2016 01:45 | March 7, 2016 04:45 | 3h | 424 | 956 |
| 5 | July 6, 2016 04:15 | July 7, 2016 00:45 | 20h 30m | 417 | 1,689 |
| 6 | July 1, 2016 03:00 | July 1, 2016 03:15 | 15m | 267 | 67 |
| 7 | July 17, 2016 23:30 | July 18, 2016 00:00 | 30m | 267 | 134 |
| 8 | February 2, 2016 23:15 | February 3, 2016 02:15 | 3h | 244 | 708 |
| 9 | April 27, 2016 13:00 | April 27, 2016 15:00 | 2h | 198 | 337 |
| 10 | June 25, 2016 14:00 | June 25, 2016 15:45 | 1h 45m | 53 | 67 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 9 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 Ida 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 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2016 | 55 min | 0.50 | 54 min | 0.49 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2016 | 81 min | 0.99 | 76 min | 0.95 |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Woodbury County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,231 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. Ida County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ida 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/ida-county