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2017 Audubon County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Audubon County, IA went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 3,725 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1833rd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Audubon County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 4, 2017 08:45 | February 4, 2017 12:30 | 3h 45m | 855 | 2,560 |
| 2 | July 19, 2017 12:15 | July 19, 2017 14:45 | 2h 30m | 151 | 108 |
| 3 | August 21, 2017 05:30 | August 21, 2017 11:00 | 5h 30m | 125 | 102 |
| 4 | May 25, 2017 03:15 | May 25, 2017 06:45 | 3h 30m | 70 | 143 |
| 5 | August 21, 2017 11:45 | August 21, 2017 15:30 | 3h 45m | 44 | 74 |
| 6 | July 23, 2017 00:00 | July 23, 2017 02:30 | 2h 30m | 25 | 53 |
| 7 | September 12, 2017 13:30 | September 12, 2017 14:00 | 30m | 25 | 10 |
| 8 | July 14, 2017 09:45 | July 14, 2017 16:15 | 6h 30m | 24 | 153 |
| 9 | June 2, 2017 13:00 | June 2, 2017 14:00 | 1h | 23 | 12 |
| 10 | July 21, 2017 11:15 | July 21, 2017 13:15 | 2h | 22 | 13 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 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 Audubon County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 | 1.6 hrs | 0.91 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2017 | 37 min | 0.60 | 37 min | 0.60 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (IA) | 2017 | 24 min | 0.23 | 24 min | 0.23 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Guthrie County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nishnabotna Valley R E C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Atlantic Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kimballton - (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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,511 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. Audubon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Audubon County, IA annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/iowa/audubon-county