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2018 Taylor County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Taylor County, IA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 3,248 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2274th 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 Taylor 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 1, 2018 17:30 | June 2, 2018 18:45 | 1d 1h | 525 | 724 |
| 2 | July 3, 2018 18:00 | July 3, 2018 19:30 | 1h 30m | 125 | 187 |
| 3 | June 12, 2018 01:30 | June 12, 2018 11:30 | 10h | 97 | 642 |
| 4 | November 17, 2018 16:00 | November 17, 2018 18:15 | 2h 15m | 45 | 58 |
| 5 | April 25, 2018 18:15 | April 25, 2018 19:00 | 45m | 37 | 28 |
| 6 | March 14, 2018 07:30 | March 14, 2018 10:30 | 3h | 27 | 81 |
| 7 | March 15, 2018 22:30 | March 16, 2018 13:00 | 14h 30m | 27 | 61 |
| 8 | May 14, 2018 09:45 | May 14, 2018 17:45 | 8h | 27 | 34 |
| 9 | June 23, 2018 21:15 | June 26, 2018 15:30 | 2d 18h | 25 | 96 |
| 10 | April 26, 2018 11:15 | April 26, 2018 15:30 | 4h 15m | 22 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 2 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 Taylor 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 |
| Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 1.69 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lenox - (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 ÷ 2,951 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. Taylor County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Taylor 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/taylor-county