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2017 Cherokee County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cherokee County, IA went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 5,568 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2069th 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 Cherokee 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 | April 5, 2017 22:45 | April 5, 2017 23:00 | 15m | 2,355 | 589 |
| 2 | April 6, 2017 13:45 | April 6, 2017 14:00 | 15m | 1,663 | 416 |
| 3 | April 25, 2017 04:15 | April 25, 2017 05:00 | 45m | 578 | 434 |
| 4 | June 14, 2017 03:00 | June 14, 2017 05:45 | 2h 45m | 344 | 440 |
| 5 | June 19, 2017 11:15 | June 19, 2017 12:45 | 1h 30m | 268 | 280 |
| 6 | July 26, 2017 11:45 | July 26, 2017 13:00 | 1h 15m | 231 | 232 |
| 7 | April 11, 2017 14:00 | April 11, 2017 17:15 | 3h 15m | 218 | 659 |
| 8 | January 13, 2017 22:00 | January 14, 2017 00:00 | 2h | 197 | 221 |
| 9 | May 9, 2017 15:15 | May 9, 2017 16:15 | 1h | 86 | 67 |
| 10 | May 20, 2017 07:30 | May 20, 2017 13:00 | 5h 30m | 67 | 197 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 8 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Cherokee 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 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2017 | 48 min | 0.56 | 48 min | 0.56 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Woodbury County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Aurelia - (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 ÷ 5,968 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. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee 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/cherokee-county