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2023 Cedar County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Cedar County, IA went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1389th 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 Cedar 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 | March 31, 2023 22:15 | April 2, 2023 17:15 | 1d 19h | 3,739 | 27K |
| 2 | March 12, 2023 02:45 | March 13, 2023 11:30 | 1d 8h | 1,251 | 2,530 |
| 3 | June 20, 2023 08:00 | June 20, 2023 10:15 | 2h 15m | 1,178 | 2,043 |
| 4 | March 25, 2023 07:30 | March 25, 2023 22:00 | 14h 30m | 788 | 3,709 |
| 5 | May 4, 2023 18:15 | May 4, 2023 19:00 | 45m | 785 | 393 |
| 6 | March 14, 2023 20:45 | March 14, 2023 21:45 | 1h | 675 | 675 |
| 7 | May 7, 2023 22:15 | May 9, 2023 00:45 | 1d 2h | 629 | 1,874 |
| 8 | February 23, 2023 08:15 | February 23, 2023 22:15 | 14h | 515 | 2,796 |
| 9 | July 29, 2023 01:45 | July 29, 2023 23:45 | 22h | 222 | 1,196 |
| 10 | January 2, 2023 16:45 | January 2, 2023 17:15 | 30m | 202 | 97 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 19 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Cedar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop | 2023 | 3.1 hrs | 1.23 | 1.7 hrs | 0.98 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.36 | 57 min | 0.66 |
| 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 Durant - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wilton - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Tipton - (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 ÷ 8,986 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. Cedar County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cedar 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/cedar-county