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2019 Taylor County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Taylor County, IA went without power for an average of 8.2 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 686th 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 Taylor 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 24, 2019 08:15 | May 24, 2019 19:30 | 11h 15m | 2,026 | 6,217 |
| 2 | August 12, 2019 09:45 | August 12, 2019 11:45 | 2h | 1,349 | 616 |
| 3 | September 8, 2019 04:45 | September 8, 2019 15:15 | 10h 30m | 1,323 | 12K |
| 4 | July 29, 2019 01:30 | July 29, 2019 11:00 | 9h 30m | 1,280 | 399 |
| 5 | May 24, 2019 06:15 | May 24, 2019 07:30 | 1h 15m | 736 | 634 |
| 6 | April 10, 2019 10:00 | April 10, 2019 12:15 | 2h 15m | 205 | 294 |
| 7 | July 14, 2019 12:45 | July 14, 2019 15:15 | 2h 30m | 159 | 398 |
| 8 | March 20, 2019 15:30 | March 20, 2019 16:30 | 1h | 158 | 81 |
| 9 | September 18, 2019 03:00 | September 18, 2019 03:15 | 15m | 156 | 39 |
| 10 | January 12, 2019 02:15 | January 12, 2019 07:15 | 5h | 113 | 527 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 11 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Taylor 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 |
| Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 1.69 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lenox - (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 ÷ 2,951 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. Taylor County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Taylor 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/taylor-county