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2016 Pottawattamie County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pottawattamie County, IA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 102K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1342nd 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 Pottawattamie 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 | March 7, 2016 21:00 | March 8, 2016 02:15 | 5h 15m | 7,075 | 11K |
| 2 | February 2, 2016 11:45 | February 3, 2016 21:00 | 1d 9h | 5,496 | 22K |
| 3 | June 6, 2016 09:30 | June 6, 2016 11:00 | 1h 30m | 3,269 | 3,450 |
| 4 | December 10, 2016 21:15 | December 11, 2016 00:00 | 2h 45m | 3,028 | 5,630 |
| 5 | March 14, 2016 14:00 | March 14, 2016 15:00 | 1h | 2,565 | 1,842 |
| 6 | July 7, 2016 06:45 | July 8, 2016 02:15 | 19h 30m | 2,385 | 2,290 |
| 7 | April 7, 2016 14:30 | April 7, 2016 22:00 | 7h 30m | 2,373 | 1,390 |
| 8 | April 23, 2016 03:30 | April 23, 2016 06:30 | 3h | 2,116 | 2,912 |
| 9 | November 28, 2016 01:00 | November 28, 2016 11:00 | 10h | 2,111 | 1,582 |
| 10 | December 20, 2016 21:00 | December 20, 2016 23:15 | 2h 15m | 2,078 | 1,980 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 54 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Pottawattamie 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 |
| Omaha Public Power District | - | - | - | - | - |
| Waverly Municipal Elec Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nishnabotna Valley R E C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Harrison County Rrl Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Atlantic Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelby - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Neola - (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 ÷ 51,132 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. Pottawattamie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pottawattamie 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/pottawattamie-county