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2020 Boone County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Boone County, IA went without power for an average of 52.8 hours, a total of 564K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 153rd 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 Boone 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 15:30 | August 21, 2020 15:30 | 11d | 9,757 | 543K |
| 2 | October 29, 2020 15:45 | October 29, 2020 20:45 | 5h | 2,225 | 2,135 |
| 3 | November 13, 2020 17:00 | November 13, 2020 23:30 | 6h 30m | 1,877 | 2,703 |
| 4 | May 27, 2020 21:00 | May 27, 2020 22:45 | 1h 45m | 972 | 1,214 |
| 5 | May 19, 2020 17:15 | May 19, 2020 18:30 | 1h 15m | 970 | 728 |
| 6 | June 23, 2020 12:30 | June 23, 2020 21:00 | 8h 30m | 752 | 266 |
| 7 | August 5, 2020 13:30 | August 5, 2020 17:15 | 3h 45m | 711 | 184 |
| 8 | June 4, 2020 15:45 | June 4, 2020 18:15 | 2h 30m | 571 | 572 |
| 9 | August 24, 2020 16:30 | August 24, 2020 17:15 | 45m | 344 | 87 |
| 10 | July 29, 2020 03:15 | July 29, 2020 11:45 | 8h 30m | 283 | 2,406 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 29 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 Boone 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Story City - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Ogden - (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 ÷ 10,670 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. Boone County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Boone 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/iowa/boone-county