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2020 Clay County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Clay County, IA went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 3,678 customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 98th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2886th 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 Clay 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 | June 10, 2020 01:00 | June 10, 2020 06:00 | 5h | 389 | 156 |
| 2 | January 18, 2020 18:00 | January 19, 2020 00:30 | 6h 30m | 311 | 1,277 |
| 3 | August 25, 2020 21:30 | August 26, 2020 17:30 | 20h | 257 | 392 |
| 4 | November 10, 2020 16:30 | November 10, 2020 18:45 | 2h 15m | 130 | 286 |
| 5 | May 1, 2020 14:00 | May 1, 2020 15:45 | 1h 45m | 56 | 92 |
| 6 | November 24, 2020 18:00 | November 24, 2020 20:30 | 2h 30m | 41 | 63 |
| 7 | July 6, 2020 20:15 | July 6, 2020 21:30 | 1h 15m | 27 | 34 |
| 8 | August 13, 2020 17:45 | August 13, 2020 21:15 | 3h 30m | 25 | 88 |
| 9 | November 10, 2020 22:15 | November 11, 2020 03:30 | 5h 15m | 23 | 121 |
| 10 | May 23, 2020 08:15 | May 23, 2020 10:45 | 2h 30m | 22 | 55 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 4 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 Clay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 | 48 min | 0.68 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spencer - (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 ÷ 13,668 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county