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2022 Plymouth County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Plymouth County, IA went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2221st 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 Plymouth 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 13, 2022 14:15 | June 13, 2022 17:15 | 3h | 804 | 838 |
| 2 | August 17, 2022 15:30 | August 17, 2022 19:15 | 3h 45m | 715 | 913 |
| 3 | August 20, 2022 10:30 | August 20, 2022 18:15 | 7h 45m | 715 | 1,085 |
| 4 | November 10, 2022 18:30 | November 10, 2022 20:15 | 1h 45m | 707 | 383 |
| 5 | May 17, 2022 15:00 | May 17, 2022 16:45 | 1h 45m | 704 | 354 |
| 6 | May 12, 2022 20:45 | May 13, 2022 12:15 | 15h 30m | 648 | 2,334 |
| 7 | January 25, 2022 11:00 | January 25, 2022 16:30 | 5h 30m | 570 | 2,347 |
| 8 | November 12, 2022 16:45 | November 12, 2022 19:30 | 2h 45m | 434 | 436 |
| 9 | March 14, 2022 01:15 | March 14, 2022 01:30 | 15m | 391 | 98 |
| 10 | December 13, 2022 08:15 | December 13, 2022 17:15 | 9h | 351 | 1,658 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 22 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 Plymouth 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 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2022 | 71 min | 0.69 | 68 min | 0.67 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Woodbury County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Akron - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hinton | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Remsen - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Westfield - (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 ÷ 8,581 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. Plymouth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Plymouth 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/plymouth-county