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2020 Guthrie County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Guthrie County, IA went without power for an average of 17.0 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 498th 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 Guthrie 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 7, 2020 03:30 | August 21, 2020 14:00 | 14d 10h | 2,574 | 82K |
| 2 | January 23, 2020 10:15 | January 23, 2020 10:45 | 30m | 978 | 350 |
| 3 | May 7, 2020 09:15 | May 7, 2020 10:15 | 1h | 719 | 373 |
| 4 | May 14, 2020 21:15 | May 14, 2020 22:45 | 1h 30m | 505 | 758 |
| 5 | October 15, 2020 19:00 | October 15, 2020 22:15 | 3h 15m | 505 | 1,641 |
| 6 | September 11, 2020 09:30 | September 11, 2020 10:15 | 45m | 503 | 377 |
| 7 | June 5, 2020 09:00 | June 5, 2020 14:15 | 5h 15m | 496 | 2,127 |
| 8 | September 28, 2020 16:00 | September 28, 2020 16:15 | 15m | 324 | 81 |
| 9 | January 23, 2020 13:30 | January 23, 2020 15:00 | 1h 30m | 214 | 320 |
| 10 | May 21, 2020 13:45 | May 21, 2020 16:00 | 2h 15m | 214 | 472 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 15 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Guthrie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (IA) | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 1.44 | 2.1 hrs | 1.26 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Guthrie County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Coon Rapids | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Stuart - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Panora - (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 ÷ 5,390 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. Guthrie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Guthrie 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/guthrie-county