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2017 Taylor County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Taylor County, IA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 3,188 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2014th 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 Taylor 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 25, 2017 17:00 | May 25, 2017 17:30 | 30m | 165 | 59 |
| 2 | December 27, 2017 10:30 | December 27, 2017 15:00 | 4h 30m | 126 | 431 |
| 3 | March 7, 2017 16:45 | March 7, 2017 17:00 | 15m | 116 | 29 |
| 4 | June 17, 2017 03:00 | June 18, 2017 05:00 | 1d 2h | 100 | 775 |
| 5 | April 29, 2017 21:00 | May 1, 2017 13:45 | 1d 16h | 72 | 305 |
| 6 | January 16, 2017 13:45 | January 16, 2017 17:15 | 3h 30m | 52 | 166 |
| 7 | July 7, 2017 11:30 | July 10, 2017 13:45 | 3d 2h | 50 | 471 |
| 8 | June 28, 2017 13:15 | June 28, 2017 14:30 | 1h 15m | 49 | 34 |
| 9 | October 21, 2017 23:30 | October 24, 2017 13:15 | 2d 13h | 44 | 188 |
| 10 | November 18, 2017 09:15 | November 20, 2017 13:45 | 2d 4h | 37 | 80 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 4 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 Taylor 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 |
| 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lenox - (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 ÷ 2,951 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. Taylor County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Taylor 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/taylor-county