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2020 Taylor County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Taylor County, IA went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 5,025 customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2377th 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 Taylor 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 03:30 | March 29, 2020 03:45 | 15m | 510 | 128 |
| 2 | February 27, 2020 13:30 | February 27, 2020 19:00 | 5h 30m | 327 | 657 |
| 3 | November 29, 2020 17:30 | November 29, 2020 20:15 | 2h 45m | 290 | 531 |
| 4 | September 23, 2020 12:15 | September 23, 2020 13:15 | 1h | 222 | 222 |
| 5 | February 25, 2020 19:00 | February 25, 2020 19:45 | 45m | 155 | 116 |
| 6 | October 5, 2020 18:30 | October 5, 2020 21:00 | 2h 30m | 151 | 154 |
| 7 | January 9, 2020 16:45 | January 9, 2020 20:30 | 3h 45m | 91 | 251 |
| 8 | March 28, 2020 19:15 | March 29, 2020 00:45 | 5h 30m | 90 | 272 |
| 9 | March 5, 2020 21:45 | March 5, 2020 23:30 | 1h 45m | 79 | 26 |
| 10 | July 6, 2020 12:45 | July 6, 2020 17:45 | 5h | 78 | 87 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 6 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 Taylor 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 |
| 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lenox - (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 ÷ 2,951 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. Taylor County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Taylor 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/taylor-county