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2017 Monroe County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Monroe County, IA went without power for an average of 15.5 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 358th 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 Monroe 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 | June 6, 2017 17:45 | June 7, 2017 20:00 | 1d 2h | 1,928 | 50K |
| 2 | March 28, 2017 12:15 | March 28, 2017 14:00 | 1h 45m | 1,517 | 414 |
| 3 | March 22, 2017 06:00 | March 22, 2017 08:15 | 2h 15m | 1,384 | 1,509 |
| 4 | December 21, 2017 20:45 | December 21, 2017 22:00 | 1h 15m | 610 | 762 |
| 5 | November 21, 2017 23:15 | November 22, 2017 01:00 | 1h 45m | 332 | 512 |
| 6 | October 5, 2017 20:45 | October 6, 2017 03:15 | 6h 30m | 331 | 1,822 |
| 7 | April 28, 2017 22:45 | April 29, 2017 05:15 | 6h 30m | 330 | 2,141 |
| 8 | April 3, 2017 20:00 | April 3, 2017 22:30 | 2h 30m | 239 | 392 |
| 9 | December 5, 2017 02:30 | December 5, 2017 04:00 | 1h 30m | 236 | 354 |
| 10 | January 11, 2017 00:00 | January 11, 2017 02:00 | 2h | 187 | 57 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 12 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Monroe 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 |
| 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,056 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. Monroe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monroe 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/monroe-county