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2020 Pottawattamie County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pottawattamie County, IA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2415th 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 Pottawattamie 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 | March 29, 2020 07:45 | March 31, 2020 21:45 | 2d 14h | 10,553 | 3,853 |
| 2 | March 23, 2020 05:00 | March 23, 2020 11:30 | 6h 30m | 4,193 | 4,835 |
| 3 | August 10, 2020 11:45 | August 13, 2020 00:00 | 2d 12h | 3,144 | 15K |
| 4 | August 6, 2020 14:15 | August 6, 2020 18:00 | 3h 45m | 2,546 | 646 |
| 5 | March 19, 2020 23:45 | March 20, 2020 19:45 | 20h | 2,415 | 910 |
| 6 | March 26, 2020 00:30 | March 26, 2020 03:30 | 3h | 2,295 | 3,857 |
| 7 | March 16, 2020 16:00 | March 19, 2020 13:30 | 2d 21h | 2,288 | 2,473 |
| 8 | March 5, 2020 16:15 | March 5, 2020 22:45 | 6h 30m | 2,201 | 1,842 |
| 9 | January 8, 2020 22:45 | January 9, 2020 01:30 | 2h 45m | 1,916 | 2,034 |
| 10 | January 7, 2020 14:00 | January 7, 2020 17:30 | 3h 30m | 1,494 | 752 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 53 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Pottawattamie 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 |
| Omaha Public Power District | 2020 | 2.2 hrs | 0.68 | 79 min | 0.53 |
| Waverly Municipal Elec Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nishnabotna Valley R E C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Harrison County Rrl Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Atlantic Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelby - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Neola - (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 ÷ 51,132 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. Pottawattamie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pottawattamie 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/pottawattamie-county