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2019 Ida County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Ida County, IA went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 4,911 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2274th 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 Ida 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 | October 22, 2019 02:15 | October 22, 2019 05:30 | 3h 15m | 529 | 731 |
| 2 | April 21, 2019 22:00 | April 21, 2019 23:30 | 1h 30m | 468 | 702 |
| 3 | February 22, 2019 17:30 | February 22, 2019 18:30 | 1h | 446 | 446 |
| 4 | June 21, 2019 20:45 | June 21, 2019 21:00 | 15m | 245 | 61 |
| 5 | December 9, 2019 16:15 | December 9, 2019 18:00 | 1h 45m | 173 | 229 |
| 6 | August 1, 2019 20:15 | August 1, 2019 20:45 | 30m | 160 | 41 |
| 7 | November 16, 2019 17:45 | November 16, 2019 19:30 | 1h 45m | 143 | 183 |
| 8 | February 9, 2019 11:15 | February 9, 2019 13:15 | 2h | 111 | 90 |
| 9 | October 17, 2019 18:15 | October 17, 2019 20:00 | 1h 45m | 76 | 133 |
| 10 | August 20, 2019 08:45 | August 20, 2019 16:45 | 8h | 71 | 257 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 8 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 Ida 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 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.06 | 88 min | 0.98 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2018 | 47 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.76 |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Woodbury County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,231 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. Ida County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ida 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/ida-county