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2020 Woodbury County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Woodbury County, IA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1757th 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 Woodbury 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 | February 2, 2020 16:00 | February 2, 2020 23:45 | 7h 45m | 6,138 | 7,535 |
| 2 | July 6, 2020 23:30 | July 7, 2020 13:00 | 13h 30m | 3,573 | 4,990 |
| 3 | January 3, 2020 17:00 | January 5, 2020 07:15 | 1d 14h | 3,516 | 3,092 |
| 4 | July 9, 2020 11:15 | July 9, 2020 16:15 | 5h | 3,408 | 3,611 |
| 5 | March 20, 2020 01:15 | March 20, 2020 15:45 | 14h 30m | 3,153 | 7,124 |
| 6 | September 8, 2020 12:30 | September 8, 2020 14:45 | 2h 15m | 2,321 | 1,742 |
| 7 | July 18, 2020 07:00 | July 18, 2020 08:15 | 1h 15m | 2,152 | 1,614 |
| 8 | April 12, 2020 11:30 | April 12, 2020 20:00 | 8h 30m | 1,330 | 4,606 |
| 9 | December 23, 2020 15:15 | December 24, 2020 03:30 | 12h 15m | 1,327 | 4,365 |
| 10 | March 1, 2020 08:45 | March 1, 2020 11:45 | 3h | 1,115 | 2,214 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 48 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Woodbury 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 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2018 | 47 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.76 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Woodbury County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Anthon - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sergeant Bluff - (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 ÷ 25,626 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. Woodbury County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Woodbury 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/woodbury-county