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2019 Hardin County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Hardin County, IA went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1840th 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 Hardin 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 | July 18, 2019 13:30 | July 19, 2019 01:45 | 12h 15m | 2,231 | 3,084 |
| 2 | November 27, 2019 12:45 | November 27, 2019 13:45 | 1h | 1,111 | 557 |
| 3 | August 20, 2019 09:45 | August 20, 2019 20:30 | 10h 45m | 1,094 | 1,454 |
| 4 | September 7, 2019 22:15 | September 10, 2019 23:30 | 3d 1h | 827 | 3,396 |
| 5 | May 18, 2019 23:45 | May 19, 2019 06:45 | 7h | 586 | 4,102 |
| 6 | July 29, 2019 01:00 | July 29, 2019 01:30 | 30m | 551 | 276 |
| 7 | June 7, 2019 07:15 | June 7, 2019 09:15 | 2h | 309 | 597 |
| 8 | July 3, 2019 14:00 | July 3, 2019 16:00 | 2h | 283 | 452 |
| 9 | November 20, 2019 02:45 | November 20, 2019 04:45 | 2h | 111 | 198 |
| 10 | July 25, 2019 09:45 | July 25, 2019 10:15 | 30m | 104 | 52 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 11 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Hardin 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grundy County Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,885 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. Hardin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardin 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/hardin-county