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2021 Wapello County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wapello County, IA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.7 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2394th 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 Wapello 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 16, 2021 02:15 | December 17, 2021 06:00 | 1d 3h | 4,365 | 18K |
| 2 | June 7, 2021 15:30 | June 7, 2021 16:15 | 45m | 2,144 | 538 |
| 3 | May 9, 2021 04:45 | May 9, 2021 08:45 | 4h | 1,842 | 2,358 |
| 4 | June 25, 2021 01:45 | June 25, 2021 10:15 | 8h 30m | 1,033 | 1,728 |
| 5 | June 19, 2021 04:15 | June 19, 2021 21:00 | 16h 45m | 448 | 1,754 |
| 6 | July 15, 2021 14:15 | July 15, 2021 16:15 | 2h | 388 | 506 |
| 7 | December 28, 2021 20:45 | December 28, 2021 21:15 | 30m | 256 | 128 |
| 8 | December 28, 2021 14:45 | December 28, 2021 15:30 | 45m | 209 | 157 |
| 9 | October 11, 2021 03:15 | October 11, 2021 09:45 | 6h 30m | 204 | 633 |
| 10 | July 29, 2021 14:15 | July 29, 2021 18:30 | 4h 15m | 168 | 565 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 19 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Wapello 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 |
| T I P Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 |
| Chariton Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 |
| Southern Iowa Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 21,960 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. Wapello County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wapello 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/wapello-county