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2017 Ida County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ida County, IA went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 2,529 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2143rd 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 Ida 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 | August 10, 2017 17:15 | August 10, 2017 18:00 | 45m | 394 | 296 |
| 2 | December 13, 2017 06:00 | December 13, 2017 09:45 | 3h 45m | 222 | 338 |
| 3 | September 15, 2017 12:00 | September 15, 2017 15:30 | 3h 30m | 212 | 110 |
| 4 | July 3, 2017 23:45 | July 5, 2017 13:45 | 1d 14h | 182 | 371 |
| 5 | March 23, 2017 13:45 | March 23, 2017 14:15 | 30m | 181 | 91 |
| 6 | September 6, 2017 06:00 | September 6, 2017 07:30 | 1h 30m | 124 | 130 |
| 7 | September 28, 2017 15:45 | September 28, 2017 16:45 | 1h | 58 | 31 |
| 8 | August 26, 2017 19:45 | August 26, 2017 22:45 | 3h | 54 | 126 |
| 9 | May 3, 2017 12:45 | May 3, 2017 14:15 | 1h 30m | 39 | 51 |
| 10 | September 5, 2017 13:45 | September 5, 2017 14:30 | 45m | 26 | 20 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 6 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 Ida 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 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2017 | 37 min | 0.60 | 37 min | 0.60 |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Woodbury County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,231 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. Ida County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ida 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/ida-county