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2020 Winneshiek County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Winneshiek County, IA went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2390th 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 Winneshiek 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 | September 19, 2020 14:15 | September 19, 2020 16:00 | 1h 45m | 4,246 | 4,248 |
| 2 | September 6, 2020 07:00 | September 6, 2020 10:45 | 3h 45m | 990 | 2,632 |
| 3 | June 29, 2020 18:45 | June 29, 2020 20:15 | 1h 30m | 864 | 433 |
| 4 | April 7, 2020 14:00 | April 7, 2020 14:15 | 15m | 468 | 117 |
| 5 | January 6, 2020 15:00 | January 6, 2020 17:00 | 2h | 416 | 304 |
| 6 | September 8, 2020 14:15 | September 8, 2020 18:45 | 4h 30m | 332 | 1,014 |
| 7 | September 9, 2020 11:30 | September 9, 2020 12:15 | 45m | 312 | 233 |
| 8 | June 20, 2020 10:00 | June 20, 2020 11:30 | 1h 30m | 308 | 462 |
| 9 | November 23, 2020 17:00 | November 23, 2020 20:45 | 3h 45m | 306 | 80 |
| 10 | June 4, 2020 20:45 | June 5, 2020 23:00 | 1d 2h | 227 | 452 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 15 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Winneshiek 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2020 | 55 min | 0.47 | 55 min | 0.47 |
| Allamakee-Clayton El Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,369 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. Winneshiek County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Winneshiek 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/winneshiek-county