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2020 Carroll County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Carroll County, IA went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 7,534 customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2708th 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 Carroll 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 | April 12, 2020 18:45 | April 13, 2020 03:45 | 9h | 483 | 404 |
| 2 | July 3, 2020 11:15 | July 3, 2020 12:30 | 1h 15m | 306 | 383 |
| 3 | August 10, 2020 15:00 | August 13, 2020 05:15 | 2d 14h | 287 | 4,553 |
| 4 | May 16, 2020 07:00 | May 16, 2020 09:00 | 2h | 264 | 113 |
| 5 | January 18, 2020 06:45 | January 18, 2020 13:45 | 7h | 132 | 453 |
| 6 | July 5, 2020 03:45 | July 5, 2020 04:00 | 15m | 106 | 27 |
| 7 | April 20, 2020 04:15 | April 20, 2020 06:45 | 2h 30m | 99 | 144 |
| 8 | June 1, 2020 06:30 | June 1, 2020 07:00 | 30m | 80 | 40 |
| 9 | October 5, 2020 14:15 | October 5, 2020 18:30 | 4h 15m | 58 | 150 |
| 10 | February 3, 2020 15:15 | February 3, 2020 19:00 | 3h 45m | 52 | 91 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 6 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 Carroll 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Coon Rapids | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Breda - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Glidden - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Manning | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,666 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. Carroll County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carroll 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/carroll-county