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2019 Union County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Union County, IA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2103rd 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 Union 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 06:15 | May 24, 2019 14:00 | 7h 45m | 5,453 | 5,479 |
| 2 | June 28, 2019 00:45 | June 28, 2019 19:45 | 19h | 1,345 | 455 |
| 3 | March 9, 2019 22:00 | March 10, 2019 01:15 | 3h 15m | 1,199 | 478 |
| 4 | September 23, 2019 15:30 | September 23, 2019 19:00 | 3h 30m | 715 | 343 |
| 5 | November 25, 2019 19:45 | November 25, 2019 22:00 | 2h 15m | 606 | 202 |
| 6 | November 23, 2019 04:30 | November 23, 2019 08:00 | 3h 30m | 160 | 510 |
| 7 | November 2, 2019 19:15 | November 2, 2019 20:00 | 45m | 158 | 84 |
| 8 | June 6, 2019 01:00 | June 6, 2019 05:45 | 4h 45m | 156 | 236 |
| 9 | October 5, 2019 06:15 | October 5, 2019 07:00 | 45m | 141 | 106 |
| 10 | May 4, 2019 19:45 | May 4, 2019 20:15 | 30m | 137 | 69 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 11 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Union 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 1.69 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (IA) | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 1.44 | 2.1 hrs | 1.26 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke Electric Coop Inc - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Afton- (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 ÷ 6,645 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county