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2018 Mitchell County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Mitchell County, IA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1835th 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 Mitchell 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 | June 2, 2018 14:00 | June 3, 2018 06:00 | 16h | 1,386 | 5,899 |
| 2 | March 5, 2018 18:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 7h | 502 | 1,132 |
| 3 | November 23, 2018 18:15 | November 23, 2018 22:45 | 4h 30m | 431 | 1,300 |
| 4 | July 30, 2018 20:00 | July 30, 2018 20:30 | 30m | 375 | 188 |
| 5 | October 21, 2018 17:30 | October 21, 2018 21:30 | 4h | 270 | 1,036 |
| 6 | January 17, 2018 23:00 | January 18, 2018 03:30 | 4h 30m | 245 | 709 |
| 7 | May 28, 2018 23:15 | May 29, 2018 04:30 | 5h 15m | 203 | 141 |
| 8 | June 30, 2018 20:30 | July 1, 2018 05:30 | 9h | 152 | 343 |
| 9 | April 14, 2018 21:45 | April 14, 2018 23:15 | 1h 30m | 96 | 64 |
| 10 | March 24, 2018 05:15 | March 24, 2018 10:30 | 5h 15m | 79 | 376 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 8 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 Mitchell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heartland Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.14 | 1.7 hrs | 1.14 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.82 | 86 min | 0.70 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Osage - (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 ÷ 6,347 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. Mitchell County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mitchell 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/mitchell-county