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2019 Washington County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Washington County, IA went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1401st 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 Washington 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 | February 12, 2019 17:15 | February 17, 2019 01:15 | 4d 8h | 1,141 | 2,468 |
| 2 | September 5, 2019 03:45 | September 13, 2019 02:30 | 7d 22h | 1,098 | 2,295 |
| 3 | October 7, 2019 13:15 | October 7, 2019 14:00 | 45m | 1,052 | 460 |
| 4 | January 30, 2019 09:00 | January 30, 2019 10:30 | 1h 30m | 910 | 1,365 |
| 5 | September 3, 2019 12:30 | September 3, 2019 20:45 | 8h 15m | 768 | 6,218 |
| 6 | May 24, 2019 13:45 | May 24, 2019 16:00 | 2h 15m | 767 | 874 |
| 7 | July 11, 2019 16:30 | July 11, 2019 17:30 | 1h | 520 | 514 |
| 8 | April 4, 2019 12:30 | April 4, 2019 13:30 | 1h | 507 | 280 |
| 9 | May 17, 2019 02:45 | May 17, 2019 15:15 | 12h 30m | 471 | 1,849 |
| 10 | May 16, 2019 20:15 | May 16, 2019 21:30 | 1h 15m | 440 | 550 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 38 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 Washington 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 |
| Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 0.92 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 |
| T I P Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 |
| Farmers Electric Coop - (IA) | 2018 | 77 min | 2.30 | 77 min | 2.30 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Waverly Municipal Elec Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,700 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county