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2019 Franklin County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Franklin County, IA went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1659th 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 Franklin 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 20, 2019 14:15 | February 20, 2019 19:15 | 5h | 909 | 685 |
| 2 | May 22, 2019 17:30 | May 22, 2019 23:00 | 5h 30m | 863 | 574 |
| 3 | November 27, 2019 08:45 | November 27, 2019 21:00 | 12h 15m | 803 | 2,717 |
| 4 | April 11, 2019 11:15 | April 11, 2019 19:30 | 8h 15m | 725 | 1,202 |
| 5 | January 14, 2019 04:15 | January 14, 2019 05:45 | 1h 30m | 711 | 1,067 |
| 6 | May 31, 2019 19:30 | May 31, 2019 20:30 | 1h | 696 | 179 |
| 7 | October 24, 2019 13:00 | October 24, 2019 15:30 | 2h 30m | 672 | 1,083 |
| 8 | January 30, 2019 03:45 | January 30, 2019 15:30 | 11h 45m | 290 | 1,447 |
| 9 | August 20, 2019 09:45 | August 20, 2019 18:45 | 9h | 278 | 581 |
| 10 | January 22, 2019 16:45 | January 22, 2019 19:30 | 2h 45m | 168 | 171 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 15 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 Franklin 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler County Rural Elec Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (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 ÷ 4,637 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county