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2020 Ringgold County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ringgold County, IA went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1249th 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 Ringgold 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 16:15 | August 11, 2020 03:45 | 11h 30m | 655 | 3,192 |
| 2 | January 17, 2020 01:00 | January 17, 2020 09:15 | 8h 15m | 484 | 1,227 |
| 3 | June 24, 2020 16:00 | June 24, 2020 17:45 | 1h 45m | 212 | 216 |
| 4 | September 23, 2020 12:15 | September 23, 2020 13:15 | 1h | 196 | 94 |
| 5 | September 6, 2020 16:15 | September 8, 2020 15:30 | 1d 23h | 186 | 3,936 |
| 6 | October 1, 2020 04:45 | October 1, 2020 08:45 | 4h | 166 | 663 |
| 7 | December 11, 2020 14:45 | December 11, 2020 17:15 | 2h 30m | 141 | 307 |
| 8 | October 5, 2020 21:00 | October 6, 2020 13:00 | 16h | 135 | 935 |
| 9 | April 7, 2020 17:45 | April 7, 2020 18:45 | 1h | 92 | 92 |
| 10 | July 23, 2020 16:00 | July 23, 2020 18:15 | 2h 15m | 81 | 165 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 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 Ringgold 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 1.69 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grundy Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke Electric Coop Inc - (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 ÷ 2,511 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. Ringgold County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ringgold 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/ringgold-county