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2022 Mills County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Mills County, IA went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1416th 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 Mills 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 | June 15, 2022 02:45 | June 16, 2022 06:30 | 1d 3h | 2,540 | 26K |
| 2 | May 29, 2022 09:15 | May 29, 2022 09:30 | 15m | 1,184 | 296 |
| 3 | April 12, 2022 20:30 | April 13, 2022 00:00 | 3h 30m | 778 | 1,173 |
| 4 | November 29, 2022 15:30 | November 30, 2022 00:30 | 9h | 705 | 1,798 |
| 5 | October 17, 2022 19:00 | October 17, 2022 20:30 | 1h 30m | 616 | 155 |
| 6 | October 18, 2022 15:30 | October 18, 2022 17:30 | 2h | 616 | 738 |
| 7 | September 2, 2022 20:00 | September 2, 2022 21:00 | 1h | 613 | 155 |
| 8 | October 19, 2022 16:45 | October 19, 2022 19:00 | 2h 15m | 268 | 272 |
| 9 | March 5, 2022 21:15 | March 6, 2022 06:00 | 8h 45m | 264 | 584 |
| 10 | December 23, 2022 07:30 | December 23, 2022 10:00 | 2h 30m | 116 | 233 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 11 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 Mills 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2022 | 1.8 hrs | 1.03 | 87 min | 0.88 |
| Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 1.69 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 |
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 ÷ 7,270 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. Mills County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mills 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/mills-county