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2017 Fayette County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Fayette County, IA went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 978th 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 Fayette 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 24, 2017 16:15 | February 24, 2017 21:00 | 4h 45m | 3,983 | 2,027 |
| 2 | February 24, 2017 03:30 | February 24, 2017 04:00 | 30m | 3,415 | 854 |
| 3 | July 19, 2017 23:00 | July 21, 2017 03:00 | 1d 4h | 2,511 | 9,092 |
| 4 | May 16, 2017 00:00 | May 17, 2017 00:00 | 1d | 1,582 | 21K |
| 5 | September 18, 2017 19:15 | September 19, 2017 00:15 | 5h | 1,278 | 1,063 |
| 6 | August 6, 2017 11:30 | August 6, 2017 12:45 | 1h 15m | 953 | 1,191 |
| 7 | July 10, 2017 06:15 | July 10, 2017 19:15 | 13h | 484 | 995 |
| 8 | July 14, 2017 01:00 | July 17, 2017 20:45 | 3d 19h | 465 | 325 |
| 9 | June 22, 2017 14:15 | June 22, 2017 16:45 | 2h 30m | 410 | 149 |
| 10 | June 30, 2017 21:45 | June 30, 2017 23:45 | 2h | 284 | 567 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 21 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 | 89 min | 1.07 |
| Allamakee-Clayton El Coop, Inc | 2017 | 5.3 hrs | 1.48 | 3.5 hrs | 1.37 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler County Rural Elec Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairbank - (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 ÷ 8,712 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county