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2016 Wapello County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wapello County, IA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1706th 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 Wapello 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 | August 19, 2016 11:30 | August 19, 2016 14:00 | 2h 30m | 5,582 | 6,921 |
| 2 | June 28, 2016 20:30 | June 28, 2016 21:15 | 45m | 1,711 | 432 |
| 3 | July 6, 2016 09:15 | July 6, 2016 17:00 | 7h 45m | 1,330 | 589 |
| 4 | August 17, 2016 15:30 | August 17, 2016 16:45 | 1h 15m | 1,245 | 630 |
| 5 | October 19, 2016 14:15 | October 19, 2016 14:45 | 30m | 1,137 | 569 |
| 6 | July 22, 2016 07:30 | July 22, 2016 14:45 | 7h 15m | 1,136 | 2,303 |
| 7 | October 20, 2016 17:15 | October 20, 2016 18:15 | 1h | 739 | 370 |
| 8 | December 7, 2016 18:30 | December 7, 2016 19:15 | 45m | 510 | 132 |
| 9 | July 7, 2016 10:45 | July 7, 2016 19:45 | 9h | 444 | 593 |
| 10 | May 9, 2016 19:30 | May 10, 2016 00:45 | 5h 15m | 368 | 621 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 35 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Wapello 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 |
| T I P Rural Electric Coop | 2016 | 1.6 hrs | 1.20 | 1.6 hrs | 1.20 |
| Chariton Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 0.89 | 67 min | 0.60 |
| Southern Iowa Elec Coop, Inc | 2016 | 64 min | 0.61 | 64 min | 0.61 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 21,960 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. Wapello County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wapello 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/wapello-county