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County annual report · FIPS 19057

2022 Des Moines County, IA Power Outage Report

In 2022, customers in Des Moines County, IA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2549th of 2,976 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
1.4
18,207 customers
Customer-hours out
25K
Peak customers out
1,586
Outages ≥1,000 out
2
0 of 10,000+ · 585 total
Longest outage
3d 6h
began October 24, 2022
Rank in state
65th/99
2549th of 2,976 US

Compared with IA, the US and 2021

Des Moines County, IA average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2022Des Moines County 1.4 hours, Iowa average 1.6 hours, US average 8.3 hours, Des Moines County, 2021 2.1 hoursDes Moines CountyDes Moines County1.4hIowa averageIowa average1.6hUS averageUS average8.3hDes Moines County, 2021Des Moines County, 2…2.1h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2022; last bar is this county in 2021.

Month by month

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Des Moines County, IA customer-hours without power by month, 2022Jan 248, Feb 358, Mar 2,280, Apr 1,474, May 3,021, Jun 3,028, Jul 5,435, Aug 1,792, Sep 3,065, Oct 1,790, Nov 2,056, Dec 72402k4k6k248Jan358Feb2,280Mar1,474Apr3,021May3,028Jun5,435Jul1,792Aug3,065Sep1,790Oct2,056Nov724Dec
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Customer-hours; July was the worst month.

Des Moines County year over year

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Des Moines County, IA: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 6.1h; 2016: 2.0h; 2017: 1.4h; 2018: 2.3h, coverage 89%; 2019: 3.3h, coverage 89%; 2020: 2.2h, coverage 91%; 2021: 2.1h, coverage 91%; 2022: 1.4h, coverage 91%; 2023: 5.1h; 2024: 9.7h; 2025: 3.1h02.557.5100%50%100%6.1h20152.0h20161.4h20172.3h20183.3h20192.2h20202.1h20211.4h20225.1h20239.7h20243.1h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Des Moines County, 2022

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1July 20, 2022 02:30July 20, 2022 07:154h 45m1,5863,211
2July 6, 2022 04:00July 6, 2022 10:456h 45m1,1561,239
3June 1, 2022 12:45June 1, 2022 13:1530m890224
4October 3, 2022 14:00October 3, 2022 14:4545m829213
5June 1, 2022 16:15June 1, 2022 18:302h 15m645906
6August 8, 2022 10:30August 8, 2022 12:001h 30m329337
7November 18, 2022 20:15November 18, 2022 22:452h 30m288334
8October 12, 2022 23:30October 13, 2022 04:305h243438
9March 22, 2022 06:15March 22, 2022 09:453h 30m191431
10May 12, 2022 02:30May 12, 2022 13:3011h1711,746

Outage episodes by size in 2022: 28 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Des Moines County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop202280 min1.0180 min1.01
Interstate Power and Light Co-----
Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light)-----
Access Energy Coop-----
City of Danville - (IA)-----
New London Municipal Utilities-----

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 ÷ 18,207 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. Des Moines County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Des Moines 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/des-moines-county

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