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2018 Fayette County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Fayette County, IA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1881st 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 Fayette 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 | July 1, 2018 07:30 | July 1, 2018 13:45 | 6h 15m | 1,312 | 2,837 |
| 2 | June 3, 2018 13:45 | June 3, 2018 19:00 | 5h 15m | 805 | 1,514 |
| 3 | June 10, 2018 00:45 | June 10, 2018 06:00 | 5h 15m | 773 | 2,038 |
| 4 | February 26, 2018 18:15 | February 26, 2018 22:15 | 4h | 550 | 554 |
| 5 | May 8, 2018 05:30 | May 8, 2018 10:15 | 4h 45m | 529 | 1,543 |
| 6 | June 8, 2018 11:45 | June 8, 2018 14:15 | 2h 30m | 490 | 326 |
| 7 | August 11, 2018 05:15 | August 11, 2018 06:45 | 1h 30m | 469 | 119 |
| 8 | December 18, 2018 19:15 | December 18, 2018 20:15 | 1h | 465 | 232 |
| 9 | June 21, 2018 18:00 | June 21, 2018 20:45 | 2h 45m | 389 | 279 |
| 10 | July 6, 2018 12:30 | July 6, 2018 13:45 | 1h 15m | 347 | 336 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 27 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.82 | 86 min | 0.70 |
| Allamakee-Clayton El Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler County Rural Elec Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairbank - (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 ÷ 8,712 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county