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2016 Scott County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Scott County, IA went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 247K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 853rd 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 Scott 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 | October 7, 2016 03:45 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 1d 14h | 16,306 | 90K |
| 2 | August 29, 2016 09:30 | August 29, 2016 15:15 | 5h 45m | 8,342 | 5,251 |
| 3 | February 13, 2016 11:30 | February 14, 2016 02:45 | 15h 15m | 5,877 | 14K |
| 4 | March 16, 2016 00:15 | March 17, 2016 07:00 | 1d 6h | 5,112 | 23K |
| 5 | November 25, 2016 13:15 | November 25, 2016 17:45 | 4h 30m | 4,372 | 6,022 |
| 6 | November 19, 2016 04:30 | November 19, 2016 09:15 | 4h 45m | 3,238 | 2,031 |
| 7 | September 5, 2016 13:00 | September 5, 2016 14:00 | 1h | 2,759 | 2,071 |
| 8 | July 13, 2016 20:45 | July 14, 2016 23:15 | 1d 2h | 2,730 | 8,263 |
| 9 | February 19, 2016 15:30 | February 20, 2016 07:15 | 15h 45m | 2,475 | 4,558 |
| 10 | June 30, 2016 15:15 | June 30, 2016 18:15 | 3h | 2,251 | 1,969 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 97 reached 100+ customers, 27 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Scott 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 |
| Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 1.06 | 88 min | 0.92 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Durant - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Buffalo - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Long Grove - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Eldridge City Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 67,611 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. Scott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scott 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/scott-county