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2022 Benton County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Benton County, IA went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2623rd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 6, 2022 01:30 | March 6, 2022 04:30 | 3h | 834 | 1,613 |
| 2 | April 1, 2022 21:00 | April 3, 2022 17:15 | 1d 20h | 510 | 777 |
| 3 | March 11, 2022 23:45 | March 12, 2022 03:45 | 4h | 483 | 1,030 |
| 4 | May 30, 2022 14:45 | May 31, 2022 18:00 | 1d 3h | 457 | 1,166 |
| 5 | November 21, 2022 21:15 | November 21, 2022 22:15 | 1h | 384 | 384 |
| 6 | February 28, 2022 14:45 | February 28, 2022 18:30 | 3h 45m | 383 | 106 |
| 7 | November 8, 2022 15:30 | November 8, 2022 21:30 | 6h | 373 | 298 |
| 8 | August 27, 2022 19:30 | August 27, 2022 20:30 | 1h | 348 | 348 |
| 9 | August 27, 2022 00:00 | August 27, 2022 03:00 | 3h | 328 | 248 |
| 10 | December 14, 2022 06:45 | December 14, 2022 13:45 | 7h | 303 | 661 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 25 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2022 | 57 min | 0.90 | 57 min | 0.90 |
| T I P Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 |
| Linn County REC | 2022 | 1.9 hrs | 1.59 | 1.9 hrs | 1.59 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Traer - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Vinton - (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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 13,498 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, IA annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/iowa/benton-county