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2017 Ringgold County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ringgold County, IA went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 7,505 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1339th 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 Ringgold 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 7, 2017 15:45 | March 7, 2017 17:15 | 1h 30m | 1,228 | 332 |
| 2 | April 10, 2017 05:15 | April 10, 2017 10:45 | 5h 30m | 393 | 678 |
| 3 | July 21, 2017 19:00 | July 21, 2017 21:00 | 2h | 324 | 263 |
| 4 | May 17, 2017 20:45 | May 18, 2017 10:30 | 13h 45m | 199 | 2,736 |
| 5 | May 25, 2017 15:15 | May 25, 2017 17:30 | 2h 15m | 121 | 41 |
| 6 | June 28, 2017 23:15 | June 29, 2017 13:15 | 14h | 116 | 164 |
| 7 | June 16, 2017 03:30 | June 16, 2017 07:00 | 3h 30m | 98 | 193 |
| 8 | April 12, 2017 16:30 | April 12, 2017 16:45 | 15m | 75 | 19 |
| 9 | July 2, 2017 22:45 | July 3, 2017 02:15 | 3h 30m | 64 | 82 |
| 10 | June 14, 2017 16:30 | June 14, 2017 21:00 | 4h 30m | 63 | 280 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 6 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Ringgold 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 1.05 | 78 min | 1.00 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grundy Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 2,511 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. Ringgold County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ringgold 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/ringgold-county