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2017 Pottawattamie County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Pottawattamie County, IA went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1697th 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 Pottawattamie 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 | May 7, 2017 00:45 | May 7, 2017 05:00 | 4h 15m | 4,753 | 4,864 |
| 2 | March 6, 2017 22:00 | March 7, 2017 12:30 | 14h 30m | 3,750 | 16K |
| 3 | May 16, 2017 21:00 | May 17, 2017 17:30 | 20h 30m | 2,812 | 8,752 |
| 4 | July 11, 2017 22:00 | July 12, 2017 02:15 | 4h 15m | 2,154 | 4,206 |
| 5 | November 24, 2017 19:00 | November 24, 2017 20:45 | 1h 45m | 2,104 | 1,549 |
| 6 | October 2, 2017 07:45 | October 2, 2017 18:30 | 10h 45m | 1,842 | 7,008 |
| 7 | January 27, 2017 13:30 | January 27, 2017 16:00 | 2h 30m | 1,756 | 3,285 |
| 8 | October 3, 2017 17:45 | October 10, 2017 18:00 | 7d | 1,493 | 1,852 |
| 9 | March 19, 2017 15:45 | March 19, 2017 21:15 | 5h 30m | 1,470 | 3,711 |
| 10 | July 26, 2017 12:30 | July 26, 2017 15:00 | 2h 30m | 1,394 | 1,048 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 51 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Pottawattamie 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 |
| Omaha Public Power District | 2017 | 3.1 hrs | 0.99 | 86 min | 0.75 |
| Waverly Municipal Elec Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nishnabotna Valley R E C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Harrison County Rrl Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Atlantic Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelby - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Neola - (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 ÷ 51,132 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. Pottawattamie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pottawattamie 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/pottawattamie-county