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2020 Hardin County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hardin County, IA went without power for an average of 21.1 hours, a total of 145K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 406th 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 Hardin 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 16:45 | August 21, 2020 22:45 | 11d 6h | 3,769 | 131K |
| 2 | April 29, 2020 13:15 | April 29, 2020 15:45 | 2h 30m | 2,888 | 2,637 |
| 3 | June 4, 2020 22:00 | June 5, 2020 00:15 | 2h 15m | 1,137 | 1,733 |
| 4 | September 11, 2020 23:45 | September 12, 2020 00:15 | 30m | 1,105 | 552 |
| 5 | June 3, 2020 17:15 | June 3, 2020 23:00 | 5h 45m | 1,104 | 858 |
| 6 | July 2, 2020 05:45 | July 2, 2020 06:45 | 1h | 1,009 | 1,009 |
| 7 | April 3, 2020 21:15 | April 3, 2020 23:45 | 2h 30m | 970 | 871 |
| 8 | May 18, 2020 18:15 | May 18, 2020 18:30 | 15m | 864 | 216 |
| 9 | July 26, 2020 13:45 | July 26, 2020 14:45 | 1h | 314 | 314 |
| 10 | September 6, 2020 10:15 | September 6, 2020 14:15 | 4h | 267 | 358 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 15 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Hardin 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grundy County Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,885 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. Hardin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardin 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/hardin-county