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2019 Wright County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wright County, IA went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1129th 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 Wright 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 | January 8, 2019 06:30 | January 8, 2019 09:45 | 3h 15m | 2,306 | 6,197 |
| 2 | June 28, 2019 23:00 | July 1, 2019 14:00 | 2d 15h | 1,945 | 7,786 |
| 3 | October 26, 2019 21:45 | October 27, 2019 04:00 | 6h 15m | 1,050 | 603 |
| 4 | November 27, 2019 08:00 | November 27, 2019 18:45 | 10h 45m | 984 | 5,203 |
| 5 | October 18, 2019 21:30 | October 19, 2019 01:15 | 3h 45m | 642 | 728 |
| 6 | September 18, 2019 14:45 | September 18, 2019 16:30 | 1h 45m | 612 | 368 |
| 7 | September 9, 2019 13:15 | September 9, 2019 15:15 | 2h | 605 | 787 |
| 8 | January 7, 2019 06:15 | January 7, 2019 10:45 | 4h 30m | 533 | 1,027 |
| 9 | February 2, 2019 23:15 | February 3, 2019 01:45 | 2h 30m | 470 | 994 |
| 10 | January 7, 2019 13:30 | January 7, 2019 13:45 | 15m | 225 | 56 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 12 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 Wright 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Boone Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cass Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Woolstock - (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 ÷ 5,538 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. Wright County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wright 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/wright-county