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2019 Iowa County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Iowa County, IA went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 77K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 486th 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 Iowa 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 | May 17, 2019 02:00 | May 22, 2019 15:30 | 5d 13h | 2,817 | 15K |
| 2 | January 30, 2019 11:30 | January 30, 2019 19:00 | 7h 30m | 2,724 | 3,523 |
| 3 | September 3, 2019 07:45 | September 3, 2019 17:15 | 9h 30m | 2,690 | 4,516 |
| 4 | March 13, 2019 21:30 | April 7, 2019 10:00 | 24d 12h | 1,595 | 2,793 |
| 5 | May 27, 2019 12:45 | May 27, 2019 21:30 | 8h 45m | 1,589 | 7,340 |
| 6 | September 23, 2019 04:30 | September 23, 2019 07:00 | 2h 30m | 1,206 | 2,714 |
| 7 | September 23, 2019 13:15 | September 23, 2019 16:45 | 3h 30m | 1,205 | 1,513 |
| 8 | August 18, 2019 09:30 | August 18, 2019 19:00 | 9h 30m | 1,176 | 1,162 |
| 9 | February 24, 2019 01:45 | February 24, 2019 08:30 | 6h 45m | 1,161 | 1,239 |
| 10 | February 10, 2019 15:30 | February 10, 2019 16:30 | 1h | 1,157 | 1,157 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 43 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Iowa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T I P Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 |
| Linn County REC | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.13 | 2.6 hrs | 1.13 |
| Farmers Electric Coop - (IA) | 2018 | 77 min | 2.30 | 77 min | 2.30 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Amana Society Service Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,965 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. Iowa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iowa 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/iowa-county