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2022 Clay County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Clay County, IA went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2777th 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 Clay 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 | July 5, 2022 22:30 | July 7, 2022 00:30 | 1d 2h | 959 | 3,063 |
| 2 | March 6, 2022 03:15 | March 6, 2022 08:30 | 5h 15m | 867 | 3,168 |
| 3 | March 9, 2022 20:00 | March 9, 2022 21:00 | 1h | 278 | 223 |
| 4 | July 22, 2022 11:00 | July 22, 2022 12:45 | 1h 45m | 258 | 452 |
| 5 | August 27, 2022 23:15 | August 28, 2022 04:45 | 5h 30m | 258 | 536 |
| 6 | October 12, 2022 14:45 | October 12, 2022 15:45 | 1h | 225 | 108 |
| 7 | May 13, 2022 01:30 | May 13, 2022 16:00 | 14h 30m | 56 | 281 |
| 8 | September 16, 2022 16:45 | September 16, 2022 17:45 | 1h | 52 | 51 |
| 9 | February 19, 2022 22:00 | February 20, 2022 00:30 | 2h 30m | 49 | 122 |
| 10 | November 22, 2022 16:45 | November 22, 2022 17:45 | 1h | 49 | 49 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 6 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 Clay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2022 | 71 min | 0.69 | 68 min | 0.67 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spencer - (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 ÷ 13,668 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county