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2019 Pottawattamie County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Pottawattamie County, IA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2081st 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 Pottawattamie 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 22, 2019 21:15 | May 23, 2019 04:00 | 6h 45m | 5,418 | 8,746 |
| 2 | December 11, 2019 16:00 | December 31, 2019 00:15 | 19d 8h | 4,583 | 11K |
| 3 | May 18, 2019 20:00 | May 18, 2019 21:15 | 1h 15m | 3,600 | 1,803 |
| 4 | August 21, 2019 12:00 | August 21, 2019 16:15 | 4h 15m | 3,264 | 2,839 |
| 5 | April 10, 2019 18:45 | April 11, 2019 00:45 | 6h | 1,928 | 1,582 |
| 6 | January 12, 2019 16:45 | January 21, 2019 21:00 | 9d 4h | 1,772 | 2,212 |
| 7 | July 28, 2019 22:30 | July 29, 2019 04:00 | 5h 30m | 1,761 | 3,504 |
| 8 | October 9, 2019 13:45 | October 17, 2019 21:15 | 8d 7h | 1,633 | 4,000 |
| 9 | May 28, 2019 01:30 | May 28, 2019 07:00 | 5h 30m | 1,553 | 5,051 |
| 10 | June 14, 2019 13:30 | June 21, 2019 22:00 | 7d 8h | 1,305 | 3,660 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 43 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Pottawattamie 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 |
| Omaha Public Power District | 2018 | 4.2 hrs | 1.33 | 1.7 hrs | 0.89 |
| Waverly Municipal Elec Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nishnabotna Valley R E C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Harrison County Rrl Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Atlantic Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelby - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Neola - (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 ÷ 51,132 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. Pottawattamie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pottawattamie 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/pottawattamie-county