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2023 Clay County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Clay County, IA went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 4,823 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 96th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2849th 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 Clay 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 | August 31, 2023 04:30 | August 31, 2023 09:30 | 5h | 433 | 2,139 |
| 2 | April 11, 2023 21:15 | April 12, 2023 13:15 | 16h | 350 | 190 |
| 3 | January 3, 2023 19:15 | January 3, 2023 20:00 | 45m | 189 | 142 |
| 4 | November 14, 2023 18:15 | November 14, 2023 19:30 | 1h 15m | 146 | 171 |
| 5 | January 3, 2023 10:45 | January 3, 2023 11:30 | 45m | 128 | 42 |
| 6 | April 5, 2023 12:45 | April 5, 2023 14:45 | 2h | 78 | 30 |
| 7 | November 16, 2023 14:45 | November 16, 2023 21:30 | 6h 45m | 51 | 98 |
| 8 | October 3, 2023 17:15 | October 3, 2023 19:45 | 2h 30m | 46 | 93 |
| 9 | April 19, 2023 08:00 | April 19, 2023 11:30 | 3h 30m | 44 | 101 |
| 10 | August 8, 2023 21:15 | August 8, 2023 22:00 | 45m | 41 | 21 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 5 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 Clay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2023 | 52 min | 0.51 | 52 min | 0.51 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spencer - (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 ÷ 13,668 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county