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2018 Audubon County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Audubon County, IA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 8,633 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1383rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Audubon County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 30, 2018 21:45 | May 1, 2018 18:45 | 21h | 284 | 442 |
| 2 | March 16, 2018 20:45 | March 17, 2018 03:30 | 6h 45m | 267 | 1,029 |
| 3 | June 28, 2018 14:15 | June 28, 2018 19:45 | 5h 30m | 251 | 74 |
| 4 | June 18, 2018 17:15 | June 21, 2018 13:45 | 2d 20h | 248 | 228 |
| 5 | June 8, 2018 05:00 | June 8, 2018 07:30 | 2h 30m | 247 | 387 |
| 6 | May 10, 2018 18:45 | May 10, 2018 19:15 | 30m | 244 | 122 |
| 7 | June 8, 2018 17:30 | June 8, 2018 19:15 | 1h 45m | 228 | 121 |
| 8 | April 29, 2018 11:45 | April 30, 2018 07:30 | 19h 45m | 173 | 407 |
| 9 | November 17, 2018 19:00 | December 1, 2018 15:00 | 13d 20h | 170 | 1,088 |
| 10 | December 13, 2018 16:15 | December 13, 2018 17:30 | 1h 15m | 169 | 127 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 12 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 Audubon County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.18 | 75 min | 0.96 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2018 | 47 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.76 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (IA) | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 1.44 | 2.1 hrs | 1.26 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Guthrie County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nishnabotna Valley R E C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Atlantic Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kimballton - (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 89% of Iowa's customers in 2018; 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. Audubon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Audubon County, IA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/iowa/audubon-county