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2020 Wright County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wright County, IA went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 4,041 customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2759th 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 Wright 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 | October 5, 2020 17:45 | October 5, 2020 18:30 | 45m | 163 | 122 |
| 2 | December 12, 2020 18:00 | December 12, 2020 20:30 | 2h 30m | 151 | 323 |
| 3 | September 6, 2020 06:15 | September 7, 2020 20:00 | 1d 13h | 139 | 487 |
| 4 | May 14, 2020 14:15 | May 14, 2020 16:15 | 2h | 97 | 109 |
| 5 | January 4, 2020 02:30 | January 5, 2020 16:30 | 1d 14h | 95 | 181 |
| 6 | June 27, 2020 21:30 | June 27, 2020 23:30 | 2h | 59 | 106 |
| 7 | September 29, 2020 22:15 | September 29, 2020 23:45 | 1h 30m | 54 | 81 |
| 8 | March 29, 2020 20:15 | March 29, 2020 20:45 | 30m | 38 | 10 |
| 9 | May 26, 2020 21:15 | May 27, 2020 01:15 | 4h | 37 | 63 |
| 10 | November 19, 2020 16:45 | November 19, 2020 17:45 | 1h | 37 | 37 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 3 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 Wright 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Boone Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cass Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Woolstock - (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 ÷ 5,538 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. Wright County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wright 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/wright-county