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2020 Audubon County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Audubon County, IA went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1344th 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 Audubon 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 | August 10, 2020 15:00 | August 12, 2020 19:30 | 2d 4h | 3,115 | 5,680 |
| 2 | August 13, 2020 15:00 | August 13, 2020 18:45 | 3h 45m | 1,298 | 337 |
| 3 | March 28, 2020 23:30 | March 29, 2020 00:45 | 1h 15m | 834 | 1,043 |
| 4 | May 25, 2020 23:15 | May 26, 2020 02:00 | 2h 45m | 721 | 1,256 |
| 5 | January 19, 2020 03:15 | January 19, 2020 05:15 | 2h | 239 | 478 |
| 6 | April 12, 2020 20:45 | April 13, 2020 07:00 | 10h 15m | 221 | 1,349 |
| 7 | December 6, 2020 10:30 | December 6, 2020 18:15 | 7h 45m | 191 | 704 |
| 8 | March 6, 2020 20:45 | March 6, 2020 22:45 | 2h | 173 | 346 |
| 9 | January 18, 2020 04:15 | January 18, 2020 07:00 | 2h 45m | 122 | 159 |
| 10 | June 10, 2020 13:45 | June 10, 2020 15:15 | 1h 30m | 77 | 74 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 9 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Audubon 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 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2018 | 47 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.76 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (IA) | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 1.44 | 2.1 hrs | 1.26 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Guthrie County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nishnabotna Valley R E C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Atlantic Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kimballton - (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 ÷ 2,511 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. Audubon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Audubon 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/audubon-county