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2018 Des Moines County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Des Moines County, IA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1731st 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 Des Moines 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 | August 29, 2018 01:15 | August 29, 2018 15:00 | 13h 45m | 2,033 | 2,156 |
| 2 | June 8, 2018 12:45 | June 8, 2018 17:30 | 4h 45m | 1,061 | 642 |
| 3 | November 19, 2018 14:00 | November 27, 2018 15:15 | 8d 1h | 512 | 7,161 |
| 4 | February 5, 2018 15:30 | February 5, 2018 17:45 | 2h 15m | 497 | 126 |
| 5 | December 15, 2018 11:30 | December 15, 2018 16:00 | 4h 30m | 491 | 916 |
| 6 | June 9, 2018 15:15 | June 9, 2018 21:15 | 6h | 485 | 696 |
| 7 | January 8, 2018 00:30 | January 8, 2018 02:45 | 2h 15m | 437 | 786 |
| 8 | February 25, 2018 05:45 | February 25, 2018 07:30 | 1h 45m | 393 | 688 |
| 9 | September 6, 2018 07:00 | September 6, 2018 10:30 | 3h 30m | 387 | 695 |
| 10 | June 7, 2018 00:30 | June 7, 2018 03:15 | 2h 45m | 354 | 451 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 33 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Des Moines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 0.92 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Danville - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| New London Municipal 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 89% of Iowa's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,207 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. Des Moines County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Des Moines 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/des-moines-county