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2020 Franklin County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Franklin County, IA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 9,070 customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2272nd 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 Franklin 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 | December 15, 2020 16:00 | December 15, 2020 19:00 | 3h | 694 | 1,042 |
| 2 | June 19, 2020 03:15 | June 19, 2020 11:15 | 8h | 691 | 2,659 |
| 3 | June 22, 2020 01:00 | June 22, 2020 04:30 | 3h 30m | 684 | 1,043 |
| 4 | April 24, 2020 23:00 | April 24, 2020 23:45 | 45m | 279 | 209 |
| 5 | January 22, 2020 05:30 | January 22, 2020 08:00 | 2h 30m | 217 | 488 |
| 6 | November 9, 2020 23:30 | November 10, 2020 14:45 | 15h 15m | 194 | 545 |
| 7 | October 3, 2020 20:30 | October 4, 2020 01:15 | 4h 45m | 169 | 170 |
| 8 | July 27, 2020 07:15 | July 27, 2020 09:15 | 2h | 111 | 148 |
| 9 | May 18, 2020 18:15 | May 18, 2020 18:30 | 15m | 103 | 26 |
| 10 | July 26, 2020 13:45 | July 26, 2020 14:45 | 1h | 101 | 101 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 10 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 Franklin 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Butler County Rural Elec Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (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 ÷ 4,637 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county