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2022 Wapello County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wapello County, IA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2671st 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 Wapello 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 | August 8, 2022 04:15 | August 8, 2022 05:45 | 1h 30m | 3,302 | 3,496 |
| 2 | April 14, 2022 16:45 | April 14, 2022 23:00 | 6h 15m | 912 | 239 |
| 3 | August 24, 2022 11:00 | August 24, 2022 12:45 | 1h 45m | 903 | 235 |
| 4 | September 23, 2022 15:30 | September 23, 2022 16:00 | 30m | 898 | 449 |
| 5 | January 15, 2022 03:00 | January 15, 2022 12:15 | 9h 15m | 840 | 4,019 |
| 6 | July 6, 2022 02:45 | July 6, 2022 09:15 | 6h 30m | 800 | 1,567 |
| 7 | December 22, 2022 19:45 | December 22, 2022 20:15 | 30m | 629 | 158 |
| 8 | August 2, 2022 07:45 | August 2, 2022 09:45 | 2h | 479 | 958 |
| 9 | January 21, 2022 18:00 | January 21, 2022 18:45 | 45m | 478 | 359 |
| 10 | August 9, 2022 13:15 | August 9, 2022 16:45 | 3h 30m | 391 | 604 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 23 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Wapello 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 |
| T I P Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 |
| Chariton Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 |
| Southern Iowa Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 21,960 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. Wapello County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wapello 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/wapello-county