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2020 Lee County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lee County, IA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2514th 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 Lee 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 30, 2020 03:30 | July 30, 2020 04:30 | 1h | 1,127 | 1,125 |
| 2 | September 10, 2020 03:45 | September 22, 2020 05:30 | 12d 1h | 978 | 2,710 |
| 3 | December 30, 2020 04:30 | December 30, 2020 12:45 | 8h 15m | 770 | 2,081 |
| 4 | August 10, 2020 18:00 | August 12, 2020 11:15 | 1d 17h | 759 | 1,045 |
| 5 | October 22, 2020 17:30 | October 22, 2020 18:15 | 45m | 713 | 440 |
| 6 | September 30, 2020 07:45 | September 30, 2020 10:30 | 2h 45m | 712 | 1,958 |
| 7 | September 9, 2020 13:45 | September 9, 2020 14:45 | 1h | 659 | 551 |
| 8 | June 22, 2020 19:15 | June 23, 2020 02:15 | 7h | 413 | 358 |
| 9 | May 18, 2020 23:00 | May 19, 2020 04:15 | 5h 15m | 267 | 252 |
| 10 | January 9, 2020 17:00 | January 9, 2020 17:15 | 15m | 261 | 65 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 27 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 Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| West Point Utility System | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,486 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2020/iowa/lee-county