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2023 Des Moines County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Des Moines County, IA went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1465th 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 Des Moines 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 22:45 | April 3, 2023 00:00 | 2d 1h | 4,732 | 24K |
| 2 | September 16, 2023 21:30 | September 17, 2023 03:00 | 5h 30m | 3,653 | 7,942 |
| 3 | July 5, 2023 01:00 | July 5, 2023 03:15 | 2h 15m | 3,393 | 5,598 |
| 4 | May 8, 2023 00:15 | May 8, 2023 20:45 | 20h 30m | 2,390 | 4,903 |
| 5 | September 11, 2023 02:15 | September 11, 2023 05:00 | 2h 45m | 2,237 | 2,396 |
| 6 | August 5, 2023 06:30 | August 5, 2023 18:45 | 12h 15m | 2,112 | 1,927 |
| 7 | August 23, 2023 06:15 | August 23, 2023 09:15 | 3h | 1,604 | 4,386 |
| 8 | November 26, 2023 07:45 | November 26, 2023 13:45 | 6h | 1,602 | 3,316 |
| 9 | July 28, 2023 07:45 | July 28, 2023 13:45 | 6h | 1,412 | 711 |
| 10 | August 10, 2023 06:30 | August 10, 2023 08:30 | 2h | 1,390 | 2,778 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 40 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Des Moines 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Danville - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| New London Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 18,207 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. Des Moines County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Des Moines 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/des-moines-county