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2023 Benton County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Benton County, IA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2302nd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2023
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 29, 2023 01:15 | July 30, 2023 06:45 | 1d 5h | 998 | 2,449 |
| 2 | May 1, 2023 20:00 | May 1, 2023 21:00 | 1h | 701 | 351 |
| 3 | June 1, 2023 23:00 | June 2, 2023 02:00 | 3h | 637 | 1,700 |
| 4 | September 6, 2023 05:30 | September 6, 2023 07:30 | 2h | 615 | 1,006 |
| 5 | June 23, 2023 23:00 | June 23, 2023 23:15 | 15m | 613 | 153 |
| 6 | October 31, 2023 13:30 | October 31, 2023 20:30 | 7h | 607 | 1,406 |
| 7 | May 26, 2023 13:15 | May 26, 2023 14:00 | 45m | 559 | 419 |
| 8 | June 2, 2023 21:15 | June 3, 2023 03:30 | 6h 15m | 505 | 1,674 |
| 9 | April 11, 2023 22:15 | April 11, 2023 23:30 | 1h 15m | 447 | 230 |
| 10 | March 31, 2023 22:00 | April 1, 2023 19:45 | 21h 45m | 416 | 1,517 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 24 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 Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2023 | 52 min | 0.65 | 52 min | 0.65 |
| T I P Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 |
| Linn County REC | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 1.82 | 2.1 hrs | 1.82 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Traer - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Vinton - (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 n/a of Iowa's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 13,498 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, IA annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/iowa/benton-county