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2017 Benton County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Benton County, IA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 76th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2008th 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 Benton 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 | March 20, 2017 10:00 | March 20, 2017 11:45 | 1h 45m | 1,645 | 1,645 |
| 2 | June 16, 2017 01:30 | June 16, 2017 03:00 | 1h 30m | 931 | 1,030 |
| 3 | March 25, 2017 18:30 | March 25, 2017 20:15 | 1h 45m | 697 | 812 |
| 4 | March 7, 2017 02:45 | March 7, 2017 07:45 | 5h | 648 | 1,424 |
| 5 | May 8, 2017 12:45 | May 8, 2017 14:00 | 1h 15m | 456 | 115 |
| 6 | August 5, 2017 11:15 | August 5, 2017 12:00 | 45m | 448 | 236 |
| 7 | August 10, 2017 18:15 | August 10, 2017 20:00 | 1h 45m | 385 | 580 |
| 8 | January 20, 2017 10:30 | January 20, 2017 14:30 | 4h | 333 | 632 |
| 9 | June 10, 2017 19:00 | June 10, 2017 22:45 | 3h 45m | 258 | 377 |
| 10 | August 15, 2017 19:00 | August 16, 2017 01:15 | 6h 15m | 242 | 519 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 17 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Benton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T I P Rural Electric Coop | 2017 | 2.8 hrs | 2.31 | 2.8 hrs | 2.31 |
| Linn County REC | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 1.47 | 1.6 hrs | 1.46 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Traer - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Vinton - (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 ÷ 13,498 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton 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/benton-county