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2019 Marion County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Marion County, IA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2338th 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 Marion 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 | August 20, 2019 11:30 | August 21, 2019 19:15 | 1d 7h | 2,670 | 13K |
| 2 | May 17, 2019 03:30 | May 17, 2019 14:45 | 11h 15m | 2,114 | 1,122 |
| 3 | April 1, 2019 16:15 | April 1, 2019 18:30 | 2h 15m | 1,559 | 2,776 |
| 4 | March 26, 2019 16:15 | March 26, 2019 18:45 | 2h 30m | 1,470 | 974 |
| 5 | September 8, 2019 08:00 | September 8, 2019 11:30 | 3h 30m | 1,151 | 2,351 |
| 6 | July 13, 2019 23:45 | July 14, 2019 00:15 | 30m | 416 | 208 |
| 7 | March 31, 2019 17:15 | March 31, 2019 18:45 | 1h 30m | 369 | 95 |
| 8 | October 25, 2019 22:30 | October 26, 2019 01:00 | 2h 30m | 269 | 538 |
| 9 | November 11, 2019 13:00 | November 11, 2019 13:30 | 30m | 224 | 56 |
| 10 | May 16, 2019 18:45 | May 16, 2019 19:00 | 15m | 223 | 56 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 23 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Marion 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 |
| Chariton Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke Electric Coop Inc - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pella Cooperative Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Pella - (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 ÷ 19,876 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. Marion County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marion 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/marion-county