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2016 Taylor County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Taylor County, IA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 3,474 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1681st 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 Taylor 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 17, 2016 13:00 | July 17, 2016 16:15 | 3h 15m | 344 | 560 |
| 2 | September 14, 2016 11:45 | September 14, 2016 15:45 | 4h | 295 | 1,064 |
| 3 | July 18, 2016 06:45 | July 18, 2016 21:45 | 15h | 99 | 185 |
| 4 | August 24, 2016 05:00 | August 24, 2016 13:00 | 8h | 85 | 182 |
| 5 | September 16, 2016 08:15 | September 16, 2016 19:00 | 10h 45m | 65 | 407 |
| 6 | April 13, 2016 14:45 | April 13, 2016 18:00 | 3h 15m | 48 | 155 |
| 7 | May 31, 2016 00:30 | May 31, 2016 08:15 | 7h 45m | 31 | 108 |
| 8 | October 4, 2016 21:30 | October 5, 2016 03:00 | 5h 30m | 26 | 131 |
| 9 | September 28, 2016 23:00 | September 29, 2016 01:15 | 2h 15m | 25 | 56 |
| 10 | September 25, 2016 12:45 | September 25, 2016 13:15 | 30m | 24 | 12 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 2 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 Taylor 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 |
| Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2016 | 2.4 hrs | 1.67 | 1.7 hrs | 1.35 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lenox - (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 ÷ 2,951 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. Taylor County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Taylor 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/taylor-county