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2019 Calhoun County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Calhoun County, IA went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1667th 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 Calhoun 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 | February 7, 2019 22:45 | February 8, 2019 00:15 | 1h 30m | 1,640 | 956 |
| 2 | October 27, 2019 19:15 | October 28, 2019 01:00 | 5h 45m | 1,381 | 6,080 |
| 3 | May 21, 2019 19:45 | May 21, 2019 22:00 | 2h 15m | 857 | 897 |
| 4 | May 17, 2019 07:15 | May 17, 2019 10:45 | 3h 30m | 468 | 1,432 |
| 5 | September 24, 2019 19:30 | September 24, 2019 19:45 | 15m | 438 | 110 |
| 6 | April 23, 2019 19:00 | April 23, 2019 19:15 | 15m | 407 | 102 |
| 7 | September 30, 2019 21:15 | September 30, 2019 23:30 | 2h 15m | 267 | 601 |
| 8 | November 1, 2019 13:45 | November 1, 2019 15:45 | 2h | 214 | 428 |
| 9 | November 11, 2019 15:00 | November 11, 2019 16:45 | 1h 45m | 214 | 322 |
| 10 | May 22, 2019 05:00 | May 22, 2019 05:30 | 30m | 129 | 65 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 10 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Calhoun 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 |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Calhoun County Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Farnhamville - (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 ÷ 4,092 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. Calhoun County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Calhoun 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/calhoun-county