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2021 Audubon County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Audubon County, IA went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.7 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1266th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Audubon County, 2021
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 15, 2021 23:00 | December 17, 2021 21:15 | 1d 22h | 1,113 | 10K |
| 2 | June 18, 2021 13:30 | June 18, 2021 14:30 | 1h | 173 | 173 |
| 3 | June 20, 2021 07:30 | June 20, 2021 14:45 | 7h 15m | 158 | 373 |
| 4 | June 4, 2021 16:00 | June 4, 2021 17:30 | 1h 30m | 133 | 36 |
| 5 | October 30, 2021 19:45 | October 31, 2021 00:00 | 4h 15m | 80 | 310 |
| 6 | April 5, 2021 23:45 | April 6, 2021 01:15 | 1h 30m | 63 | 95 |
| 7 | June 25, 2021 22:30 | June 26, 2021 00:30 | 2h | 63 | 126 |
| 8 | June 15, 2021 23:45 | June 16, 2021 02:30 | 2h 45m | 60 | 165 |
| 9 | June 26, 2021 10:00 | June 26, 2021 11:30 | 1h 30m | 50 | 75 |
| 10 | October 28, 2021 02:30 | October 28, 2021 04:00 | 1h 30m | 50 | 75 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 4 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 Audubon County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 1.9 hrs | 1.04 | 75 min | 0.74 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2018 | 47 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.76 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (IA) | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 1.44 | 2.1 hrs | 1.26 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Guthrie County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nishnabotna Valley R E C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Atlantic Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kimballton - (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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,511 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. Audubon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Audubon County, IA annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/iowa/audubon-county