County annual report · FIPS 19041
2018 Clay County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Clay County, IA went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 85th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2332nd 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 Clay 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 14, 2018 12:30 | April 16, 2018 14:45 | 2d 2h | 787 | 8,474 |
| 2 | January 22, 2018 11:15 | January 22, 2018 16:45 | 5h 30m | 344 | 1,130 |
| 3 | December 14, 2018 06:45 | December 14, 2018 09:00 | 2h 15m | 308 | 233 |
| 4 | September 6, 2018 19:00 | September 6, 2018 20:30 | 1h 30m | 191 | 164 |
| 5 | December 1, 2018 23:45 | December 2, 2018 14:45 | 15h | 106 | 389 |
| 6 | May 1, 2018 18:30 | May 1, 2018 19:30 | 1h | 48 | 48 |
| 7 | June 18, 2018 10:00 | June 18, 2018 13:15 | 3h 15m | 45 | 145 |
| 8 | June 6, 2018 11:30 | June 6, 2018 20:30 | 9h | 39 | 107 |
| 9 | August 5, 2018 09:00 | August 5, 2018 18:15 | 9h 15m | 36 | 215 |
| 10 | May 28, 2018 23:45 | May 29, 2018 04:45 | 5h | 33 | 105 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 5 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 Clay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.06 | 88 min | 0.98 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spencer - (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 ÷ 13,668 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county