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2016 Wright County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Wright County, IA went without power for an average of 7.8 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 446th 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 Wright 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 24, 2016 08:45 | March 24, 2016 10:15 | 1h 30m | 2,588 | 2,557 |
| 2 | July 17, 2016 08:00 | July 19, 2016 01:15 | 1d 17h | 2,580 | 24K |
| 3 | March 24, 2016 00:15 | March 24, 2016 06:30 | 6h 15m | 1,977 | 644 |
| 4 | July 12, 2016 03:30 | July 12, 2016 07:15 | 3h 45m | 1,844 | 3,153 |
| 5 | January 2, 2016 20:45 | January 3, 2016 00:15 | 3h 30m | 1,460 | 2,054 |
| 6 | July 7, 2016 06:45 | July 7, 2016 17:45 | 11h | 1,206 | 4,329 |
| 7 | September 7, 2016 10:45 | September 7, 2016 11:00 | 15m | 1,204 | 301 |
| 8 | September 22, 2016 17:30 | September 22, 2016 17:45 | 15m | 1,203 | 301 |
| 9 | November 9, 2016 23:30 | November 10, 2016 03:30 | 4h | 825 | 1,283 |
| 10 | July 10, 2016 13:00 | July 10, 2016 15:30 | 2h 30m | 809 | 205 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 17 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Wright 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Boone Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cass Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Woolstock - (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 ÷ 5,538 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. Wright County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wright 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/wright-county