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2017 Lucas County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lucas County, IA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 5,200 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1947th 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 Lucas 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 6, 2017 18:30 | March 6, 2017 19:15 | 45m | 745 | 559 |
| 2 | April 19, 2017 12:00 | April 19, 2017 15:15 | 3h 15m | 133 | 426 |
| 3 | April 16, 2017 02:30 | April 16, 2017 05:30 | 3h | 123 | 167 |
| 4 | June 25, 2017 07:45 | June 25, 2017 11:00 | 3h 15m | 112 | 362 |
| 5 | March 6, 2017 21:00 | March 7, 2017 17:30 | 20h 30m | 100 | 324 |
| 6 | January 16, 2017 18:45 | January 16, 2017 19:45 | 1h | 94 | 94 |
| 7 | February 19, 2017 08:00 | February 19, 2017 10:00 | 2h | 92 | 161 |
| 8 | November 16, 2017 18:45 | November 16, 2017 19:15 | 30m | 88 | 44 |
| 9 | June 11, 2017 04:00 | June 11, 2017 06:00 | 2h | 84 | 154 |
| 10 | August 15, 2017 19:15 | August 16, 2017 00:30 | 5h 15m | 80 | 186 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 5 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 Lucas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chariton Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2017 | 3.7 hrs | 1.36 | 2.0 hrs | 0.83 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke Electric Coop Inc - (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 ÷ 4,225 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. Lucas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lucas 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/lucas-county