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2018 Franklin County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Franklin County, IA went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1168th 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 Franklin 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 | March 24, 2018 05:30 | March 24, 2018 20:00 | 14h 30m | 664 | 4,215 |
| 2 | August 27, 2018 04:15 | August 28, 2018 16:30 | 1d 12h | 647 | 9,274 |
| 3 | November 24, 2018 06:30 | November 24, 2018 08:15 | 1h 45m | 332 | 421 |
| 4 | January 12, 2018 11:15 | January 12, 2018 14:45 | 3h 30m | 330 | 412 |
| 5 | April 15, 2018 01:15 | April 15, 2018 03:30 | 2h 15m | 183 | 263 |
| 6 | April 14, 2018 05:15 | April 14, 2018 09:15 | 4h | 140 | 483 |
| 7 | June 5, 2018 16:30 | June 5, 2018 18:30 | 2h | 133 | 140 |
| 8 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 6, 2018 07:00 | 3h 45m | 126 | 387 |
| 9 | June 2, 2018 13:15 | June 2, 2018 22:30 | 9h 15m | 125 | 822 |
| 10 | February 19, 2018 18:00 | February 19, 2018 23:30 | 5h 30m | 119 | 335 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 15 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 Franklin 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler County Rural Elec Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (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 ÷ 4,637 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county