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2018 Marion County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Marion County, IA went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2307th 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 Marion 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 19, 2018 19:15 | August 19, 2018 19:45 | 30m | 3,579 | 895 |
| 2 | May 29, 2018 08:30 | May 29, 2018 12:00 | 3h 30m | 1,884 | 2,951 |
| 3 | July 19, 2018 21:45 | July 20, 2018 12:30 | 14h 45m | 1,529 | 1,859 |
| 4 | April 14, 2018 05:15 | April 14, 2018 07:45 | 2h 30m | 1,230 | 2,272 |
| 5 | September 18, 2018 16:15 | September 18, 2018 20:15 | 4h | 1,140 | 997 |
| 6 | June 14, 2018 08:00 | June 14, 2018 10:30 | 2h 30m | 1,096 | 2,666 |
| 7 | September 21, 2018 06:00 | September 21, 2018 07:15 | 1h 15m | 770 | 386 |
| 8 | January 1, 2018 10:30 | January 1, 2018 11:15 | 45m | 570 | 428 |
| 9 | March 29, 2018 16:30 | March 29, 2018 21:15 | 4h 45m | 411 | 646 |
| 10 | August 28, 2018 18:30 | August 29, 2018 00:30 | 6h | 393 | 780 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 16 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Marion 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 |
| Chariton Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke Electric Coop Inc - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pella Cooperative Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Pella - (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 ÷ 19,876 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. Marion County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marion 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/marion-county