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2019 Fayette County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Fayette County, IA went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1108th 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 Fayette 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 20:45 | July 2, 2019 05:30 | 1d 8h | 5,539 | 23K |
| 2 | April 11, 2019 12:30 | April 11, 2019 23:30 | 11h | 1,830 | 3,349 |
| 3 | October 21, 2019 09:45 | October 21, 2019 11:45 | 2h | 1,770 | 3,538 |
| 4 | May 29, 2019 15:15 | May 29, 2019 17:15 | 2h | 1,078 | 1,150 |
| 5 | July 10, 2019 18:00 | July 10, 2019 23:15 | 5h 15m | 887 | 232 |
| 6 | July 8, 2019 19:45 | July 8, 2019 22:15 | 2h 30m | 883 | 242 |
| 7 | February 8, 2019 01:30 | February 8, 2019 06:45 | 5h 15m | 589 | 1,376 |
| 8 | February 3, 2019 10:15 | February 3, 2019 14:45 | 4h 30m | 535 | 585 |
| 9 | August 20, 2019 11:30 | August 20, 2019 16:00 | 4h 30m | 518 | 163 |
| 10 | September 10, 2019 00:45 | September 10, 2019 05:30 | 4h 45m | 391 | 497 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 22 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.82 | 86 min | 0.70 |
| Allamakee-Clayton El Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler County Rural Elec Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairbank - (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 ÷ 8,712 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county