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2021 Wayne County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wayne County, IA went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.7 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1172nd 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 Wayne 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 19:00 | December 17, 2021 05:45 | 1d 10h | 1,144 | 7,605 |
| 2 | December 7, 2021 16:45 | December 7, 2021 20:00 | 3h 15m | 497 | 1,033 |
| 3 | June 19, 2021 05:15 | June 19, 2021 20:45 | 15h 30m | 457 | 1,127 |
| 4 | November 15, 2021 16:30 | November 15, 2021 17:45 | 1h 15m | 373 | 461 |
| 5 | November 13, 2021 09:45 | November 13, 2021 12:15 | 2h 30m | 364 | 910 |
| 6 | March 17, 2021 18:00 | March 17, 2021 18:30 | 30m | 116 | 58 |
| 7 | September 20, 2021 23:00 | September 21, 2021 18:30 | 19h 30m | 78 | 519 |
| 8 | August 14, 2021 20:45 | August 16, 2021 19:00 | 1d 22h | 74 | 3,421 |
| 9 | October 10, 2021 13:15 | October 11, 2021 14:15 | 1d 1h | 62 | 69 |
| 10 | June 19, 2021 22:00 | June 19, 2021 23:00 | 1h | 51 | 51 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 6 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 Wayne 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chariton Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grundy Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke Electric Coop Inc - (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 ÷ 2,947 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county