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2018 Wright County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wright County, IA went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1683rd 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 Wright 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 | September 20, 2018 19:00 | September 21, 2018 01:00 | 6h | 2,394 | 1,878 |
| 2 | January 11, 2018 12:45 | January 11, 2018 14:45 | 2h | 643 | 644 |
| 3 | March 31, 2018 12:45 | March 31, 2018 13:30 | 45m | 643 | 482 |
| 4 | April 14, 2018 03:15 | April 14, 2018 11:45 | 8h 30m | 643 | 1,899 |
| 5 | June 29, 2018 21:00 | June 29, 2018 23:00 | 2h | 434 | 622 |
| 6 | April 24, 2018 23:15 | April 24, 2018 23:30 | 15m | 432 | 108 |
| 7 | September 20, 2018 14:30 | September 20, 2018 16:15 | 1h 45m | 334 | 585 |
| 8 | April 14, 2018 22:30 | April 16, 2018 12:45 | 1d 14h | 288 | 2,058 |
| 9 | June 30, 2018 20:00 | July 1, 2018 00:45 | 4h 45m | 238 | 336 |
| 10 | September 18, 2018 14:00 | September 18, 2018 16:00 | 2h | 209 | 254 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 15 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 Wright 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Boone Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cass Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Woolstock - (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 ÷ 5,538 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. Wright County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wright 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/wright-county