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2019 Lee County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lee County, IA went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 41K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1783rd 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 Lee 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 26, 2019 00:45 | June 27, 2019 00:15 | 23h 30m | 3,704 | 8,800 |
| 2 | July 17, 2019 20:00 | July 18, 2019 17:30 | 21h 30m | 2,017 | 2,508 |
| 3 | May 26, 2019 20:15 | May 26, 2019 21:15 | 1h | 1,503 | 1,000 |
| 4 | May 24, 2019 22:00 | May 24, 2019 23:45 | 1h 45m | 1,502 | 398 |
| 5 | August 13, 2019 02:15 | August 13, 2019 04:15 | 2h | 1,375 | 621 |
| 6 | December 18, 2019 20:15 | December 18, 2019 20:30 | 15m | 1,324 | 331 |
| 7 | May 29, 2019 00:15 | May 29, 2019 07:30 | 7h 15m | 1,178 | 1,250 |
| 8 | January 9, 2019 01:15 | January 9, 2019 04:30 | 3h 15m | 1,021 | 2,298 |
| 9 | August 7, 2019 17:45 | August 7, 2019 19:45 | 2h | 993 | 250 |
| 10 | May 30, 2019 20:30 | May 31, 2019 00:45 | 4h 15m | 982 | 886 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 42 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| West Point Utility System | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,486 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2019/iowa/lee-county