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2020 Adair County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Adair County, IA went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 476 customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 99th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2936th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adair County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 15, 2020 17:45 | November 15, 2020 21:15 | 3h 30m | 91 | 151 |
| 2 | October 16, 2020 14:15 | October 16, 2020 16:15 | 2h | 26 | 52 |
| 3 | October 14, 2020 13:45 | October 14, 2020 14:30 | 45m | 8 | 6 |
| 4 | May 28, 2020 01:30 | May 28, 2020 03:00 | 1h 30m | 7 | 9 |
| 5 | October 23, 2020 00:15 | October 23, 2020 01:15 | 1h | 7 | 4 |
| 6 | July 26, 2020 17:45 | July 26, 2020 23:00 | 5h 15m | 5 | 26 |
| 7 | December 3, 2020 10:00 | December 3, 2020 15:45 | 5h 45m | 4 | 23 |
| 8 | January 23, 2020 15:15 | January 23, 2020 16:45 | 1h 30m | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | September 14, 2020 16:00 | September 14, 2020 19:15 | 3h 15m | 3 | 7 |
| 10 | September 21, 2020 18:30 | September 21, 2020 21:15 | 2h 45m | 3 | 7 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 0 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Adair County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 18.3 hrs | 1.43 | 82 min | 0.79 |
| 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Waverly Municipal Elec Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
| Guthrie County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Stuart - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fontanelle - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Greenfield - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Orient - (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 91% of Iowa's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,686 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. Adair County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Adair County, IA annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/iowa/adair-county