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2020 Iowa County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Iowa County, IA went without power for an average of 33.3 hours, a total of 232K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 245th 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 Iowa 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 14:30 | August 21, 2020 04:45 | 10d 14h | 6,828 | 223K |
| 2 | September 28, 2020 20:45 | September 28, 2020 22:30 | 1h 45m | 653 | 166 |
| 3 | May 26, 2020 19:45 | May 26, 2020 22:45 | 3h | 479 | 412 |
| 4 | June 11, 2020 09:30 | June 11, 2020 11:30 | 2h | 341 | 626 |
| 5 | January 10, 2020 22:45 | January 11, 2020 20:15 | 21h 30m | 250 | 1,762 |
| 6 | November 2, 2020 01:15 | November 2, 2020 03:30 | 2h 15m | 216 | 271 |
| 7 | October 1, 2020 12:45 | October 1, 2020 15:45 | 3h | 149 | 77 |
| 8 | February 27, 2020 12:30 | February 27, 2020 17:30 | 5h | 123 | 260 |
| 9 | July 9, 2020 17:15 | July 9, 2020 23:45 | 6h 30m | 115 | 140 |
| 10 | September 12, 2020 01:45 | September 12, 2020 06:00 | 4h 15m | 92 | 99 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 9 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 Iowa 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 |
| T I P Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 |
| Linn County REC | 2020 | 58.0 hrs | 3.02 | 2.6 hrs | 1.74 |
| Farmers Electric Coop - (IA) | 2018 | 77 min | 2.30 | 77 min | 2.30 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Amana Society Service Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,965 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. Iowa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iowa 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/iowa-county