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2020 Fayette County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Fayette County, IA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1761st 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 Fayette 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 | July 9, 2020 15:15 | July 10, 2020 04:00 | 12h 45m | 2,283 | 5,171 |
| 2 | July 11, 2020 23:30 | July 12, 2020 08:15 | 8h 45m | 1,197 | 3,677 |
| 3 | April 3, 2020 06:15 | April 3, 2020 11:15 | 5h | 921 | 4,605 |
| 4 | June 16, 2020 13:30 | June 16, 2020 16:45 | 3h 15m | 635 | 201 |
| 5 | November 9, 2020 19:45 | November 10, 2020 03:45 | 8h | 520 | 3,056 |
| 6 | June 6, 2020 11:45 | June 8, 2020 13:45 | 2d 2h | 490 | 1,213 |
| 7 | December 23, 2020 18:30 | December 23, 2020 22:00 | 3h 30m | 477 | 269 |
| 8 | April 9, 2020 14:00 | April 9, 2020 17:30 | 3h 30m | 458 | 140 |
| 9 | August 9, 2020 18:15 | August 10, 2020 03:15 | 9h | 335 | 1,409 |
| 10 | September 30, 2020 14:15 | September 30, 2020 18:15 | 4h | 335 | 425 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 25 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 Fayette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2020 | 14.1 hrs | 1.01 | 54 min | 0.59 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2020 | 55 min | 0.47 | 55 min | 0.47 |
| Allamakee-Clayton El Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler County Rural Elec Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairbank - (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 ÷ 8,712 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county