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2021 Lee County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lee County, IA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.7 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2283rd 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 Lee 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 | August 11, 2021 11:15 | August 12, 2021 12:15 | 1d 1h | 3,262 | 4,701 |
| 2 | July 10, 2021 00:45 | July 10, 2021 18:45 | 18h | 1,615 | 3,198 |
| 3 | June 18, 2021 15:15 | June 19, 2021 03:15 | 12h | 1,132 | 1,179 |
| 4 | June 12, 2021 12:15 | June 12, 2021 15:45 | 3h 30m | 1,037 | 1,140 |
| 5 | October 25, 2021 07:15 | October 25, 2021 08:15 | 1h | 1,004 | 536 |
| 6 | April 27, 2021 07:45 | April 27, 2021 23:00 | 15h 15m | 813 | 272 |
| 7 | June 29, 2021 10:00 | June 29, 2021 18:00 | 8h | 713 | 1,728 |
| 8 | April 3, 2021 18:15 | April 3, 2021 19:15 | 1h | 608 | 608 |
| 9 | December 11, 2021 06:15 | December 11, 2021 13:30 | 7h 15m | 490 | 760 |
| 10 | December 16, 2021 10:45 | December 16, 2021 15:15 | 4h 30m | 408 | 1,630 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 28 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| West Point Utility System | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,486 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/iowa/lee-county