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2017 Scott County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Scott County, IA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 189K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1385th 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 Scott 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 00:45 | March 9, 2017 01:30 | 2d | 10,806 | 62K |
| 2 | June 16, 2017 03:00 | June 17, 2017 19:15 | 1d 16h | 7,800 | 36K |
| 3 | July 20, 2017 20:15 | July 21, 2017 23:00 | 1d 2h | 5,008 | 17K |
| 4 | August 13, 2017 19:00 | August 13, 2017 23:00 | 4h | 3,806 | 2,156 |
| 5 | October 31, 2017 19:00 | November 1, 2017 01:15 | 6h 15m | 1,783 | 474 |
| 6 | April 17, 2017 18:00 | April 17, 2017 23:00 | 5h | 1,756 | 1,923 |
| 7 | October 14, 2017 14:00 | October 15, 2017 04:45 | 14h 45m | 1,730 | 3,670 |
| 8 | December 19, 2017 05:15 | December 19, 2017 09:00 | 3h 45m | 1,622 | 1,644 |
| 9 | October 11, 2017 18:45 | October 12, 2017 03:00 | 8h 15m | 1,589 | 414 |
| 10 | June 28, 2017 12:30 | June 28, 2017 15:30 | 3h | 1,484 | 1,525 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 89 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Scott 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 |
| Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 1.06 | 88 min | 0.92 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Durant - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Buffalo - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Long Grove - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Eldridge City Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 67,611 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. Scott County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Scott 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/scott-county