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2020 Marion County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Marion County, IA went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2184th 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 Marion 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 | January 1, 2020 14:45 | January 1, 2020 17:15 | 2h 30m | 3,849 | 4,898 |
| 2 | March 25, 2020 21:00 | March 25, 2020 23:45 | 2h 45m | 2,998 | 3,390 |
| 3 | November 18, 2020 06:00 | November 18, 2020 07:45 | 1h 45m | 2,590 | 4,012 |
| 4 | November 18, 2020 18:15 | November 18, 2020 20:15 | 2h | 2,191 | 626 |
| 5 | August 10, 2020 16:45 | August 14, 2020 23:00 | 4d 6h | 1,815 | 17K |
| 6 | September 8, 2020 03:00 | September 8, 2020 04:00 | 1h | 1,556 | 1,556 |
| 7 | June 10, 2020 03:15 | June 10, 2020 05:45 | 2h 30m | 1,461 | 1,131 |
| 8 | October 18, 2020 11:15 | October 18, 2020 13:30 | 2h 15m | 1,059 | 1,854 |
| 9 | September 10, 2020 09:00 | September 10, 2020 11:00 | 2h | 981 | 643 |
| 10 | December 13, 2020 14:30 | December 13, 2020 16:30 | 2h | 778 | 592 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 20 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Marion 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 |
| Chariton Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke Electric Coop Inc - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pella Cooperative Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Pella - (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 ÷ 19,876 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. Marion County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marion 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/marion-county