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2020 Cedar County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cedar County, IA went without power for an average of 82.1 hours, a total of 737K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 87th 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 Cedar 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 18:00 | August 22, 2020 04:45 | 11d 10h | 6,196 | 693K |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 00:30 | January 12, 2020 03:30 | 1d 3h | 1,902 | 21K |
| 3 | July 11, 2020 23:30 | July 12, 2020 23:00 | 23h 30m | 1,335 | 4,730 |
| 4 | October 13, 2020 13:30 | October 13, 2020 14:45 | 1h 15m | 836 | 264 |
| 5 | July 4, 2020 19:45 | July 4, 2020 23:15 | 3h 30m | 782 | 2,056 |
| 6 | April 6, 2020 13:15 | April 6, 2020 13:30 | 15m | 743 | 186 |
| 7 | February 18, 2020 16:45 | February 18, 2020 17:30 | 45m | 707 | 530 |
| 8 | June 15, 2020 13:30 | June 15, 2020 14:30 | 1h | 658 | 329 |
| 9 | June 8, 2020 20:15 | June 8, 2020 20:45 | 30m | 599 | 300 |
| 10 | October 5, 2020 19:00 | October 5, 2020 21:45 | 2h 45m | 551 | 831 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 35 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 Cedar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop | 2020 | 10.6 hrs | 2.12 | 1.9 hrs | 1.18 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2020 | 4.5 hrs | 1.12 | 73 min | 0.75 |
| Linn County REC | 2020 | 58.0 hrs | 3.02 | 2.6 hrs | 1.74 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Durant - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wilton - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Tipton - (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 ÷ 8,986 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. Cedar County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cedar 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/cedar-county