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2020 Iron County, UT Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Iron County, UT went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 64K customer-hours (Utah average 8.7 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 29 Utah counties and 2088th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with UT, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Utah customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Iron 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 | December 1, 2020 07:15 | December 1, 2020 10:15 | 3h | 3,491 | 10K |
| 2 | October 24, 2020 12:45 | October 24, 2020 17:30 | 4h 45m | 3,303 | 9,110 |
| 3 | September 11, 2020 05:30 | September 11, 2020 09:30 | 4h | 3,236 | 13K |
| 4 | October 20, 2020 07:30 | October 20, 2020 09:45 | 2h 15m | 2,788 | 3,485 |
| 5 | September 3, 2020 14:15 | September 3, 2020 16:45 | 2h 30m | 2,363 | 1,184 |
| 6 | December 3, 2020 22:15 | December 3, 2020 23:30 | 1h 15m | 2,021 | 506 |
| 7 | March 12, 2020 16:45 | March 12, 2020 20:15 | 3h 30m | 1,989 | 2,562 |
| 8 | December 30, 2020 05:15 | December 30, 2020 07:15 | 2h | 1,968 | 3,568 |
| 9 | February 23, 2020 15:15 | February 23, 2020 22:30 | 7h 15m | 1,626 | 3,260 |
| 10 | June 15, 2020 13:30 | June 15, 2020 20:45 | 7h 15m | 1,080 | 278 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 34 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Iron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PacifiCorp | 2020 | 6.8 hrs | 1.88 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| Garkane Energy Coop, Inc | 2020 | 7.6 hrs | - | 6.2 hrs | - |
| Dixie Escalante R E A, Inc | 2020 | 26 min | 0.31 | 26 min | 0.31 |
| Parowan City Corporation | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Paragonah - (UT) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 79% of Utah's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 26,673 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. Iron County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iron County, UT 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/utah/iron-county