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2023 Fayette County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Fayette County, IA went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1283rd 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 Fayette 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 | June 24, 2023 22:45 | June 26, 2023 15:45 | 1d 17h | 905 | 35K |
| 2 | March 7, 2023 17:15 | March 7, 2023 19:00 | 1h 45m | 862 | 1,011 |
| 3 | June 18, 2023 20:15 | June 18, 2023 23:00 | 2h 45m | 551 | 284 |
| 4 | July 29, 2023 00:45 | July 29, 2023 05:30 | 4h 45m | 514 | 527 |
| 5 | November 9, 2023 14:30 | November 9, 2023 19:15 | 4h 45m | 471 | 769 |
| 6 | March 31, 2023 22:45 | April 1, 2023 16:45 | 18h | 466 | 5,194 |
| 7 | March 30, 2023 14:15 | March 30, 2023 17:45 | 3h 30m | 347 | 177 |
| 8 | March 24, 2023 14:30 | March 24, 2023 22:00 | 7h 30m | 253 | 354 |
| 9 | February 23, 2023 05:45 | February 23, 2023 08:45 | 3h | 249 | 747 |
| 10 | July 7, 2023 02:15 | July 7, 2023 04:45 | 2h 30m | 240 | 515 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 22 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 Fayette 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2023 | 58 min | 0.66 | 52 min | 0.61 |
| Allamakee-Clayton El Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 |
| Butler County Rural Elec Coop - (IA) | 2023 | 71 min | 0.68 | 71 min | 0.68 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairbank - (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 ÷ 8,712 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county