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2019 Adams County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Adams County, IA went without power for an average of 7.3 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 776th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2019
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 30, 2019 15:15 | June 30, 2019 23:30 | 8h 15m | 893 | 3,615 |
| 2 | May 24, 2019 06:15 | May 24, 2019 13:30 | 7h 15m | 736 | 1,170 |
| 3 | February 24, 2019 08:45 | February 25, 2019 02:15 | 17h 30m | 341 | 1,519 |
| 4 | January 30, 2019 13:45 | January 30, 2019 15:30 | 1h 45m | 340 | 548 |
| 5 | October 8, 2019 20:15 | October 8, 2019 21:15 | 1h | 327 | 326 |
| 6 | May 21, 2019 18:15 | May 21, 2019 19:15 | 1h | 236 | 236 |
| 7 | March 12, 2019 13:45 | March 12, 2019 15:45 | 2h | 234 | 468 |
| 8 | November 25, 2019 20:00 | November 25, 2019 20:15 | 15m | 233 | 58 |
| 9 | May 14, 2019 02:00 | May 14, 2019 12:45 | 10h 45m | 228 | 124 |
| 10 | May 22, 2019 06:15 | May 22, 2019 10:30 | 4h 15m | 163 | 357 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 14 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 Adams County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Corning - (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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,844 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. Adams County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Adams County, IA annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/iowa/adams-county