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2020 Plymouth County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Plymouth County, IA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2117th 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 Plymouth 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 | November 29, 2020 15:45 | November 29, 2020 17:45 | 2h | 708 | 886 |
| 2 | October 12, 2020 00:00 | October 12, 2020 03:00 | 3h | 577 | 603 |
| 3 | April 22, 2020 20:30 | April 23, 2020 00:15 | 3h 45m | 509 | 511 |
| 4 | August 2, 2020 21:30 | August 2, 2020 23:30 | 2h | 436 | 223 |
| 5 | October 2, 2020 07:45 | October 2, 2020 21:30 | 13h 45m | 432 | 245 |
| 6 | August 19, 2020 00:45 | August 19, 2020 04:15 | 3h 30m | 343 | 1,002 |
| 7 | April 2, 2020 23:45 | April 3, 2020 00:30 | 45m | 320 | 240 |
| 8 | January 4, 2020 17:00 | January 4, 2020 21:00 | 4h | 310 | 1,173 |
| 9 | July 14, 2020 09:30 | July 14, 2020 13:00 | 3h 30m | 255 | 426 |
| 10 | October 20, 2020 12:00 | October 20, 2020 15:15 | 3h 15m | 217 | 606 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 26 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Plymouth 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 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 | 48 min | 0.68 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Woodbury County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Akron - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hinton | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Remsen - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Westfield - (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 ÷ 8,581 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. Plymouth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Plymouth 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/plymouth-county