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2023 Franklin County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Franklin County, IA went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1665th 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 Franklin 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 | May 29, 2023 18:00 | May 30, 2023 06:15 | 12h 15m | 691 | 429 |
| 2 | August 11, 2023 07:15 | August 11, 2023 09:45 | 2h 30m | 652 | 797 |
| 3 | August 12, 2023 10:45 | August 15, 2023 12:00 | 3d 1h | 414 | 1,040 |
| 4 | March 25, 2023 15:00 | March 25, 2023 19:15 | 4h 15m | 397 | 931 |
| 5 | December 4, 2023 14:30 | December 4, 2023 21:15 | 6h 45m | 369 | 375 |
| 6 | April 16, 2023 01:00 | April 16, 2023 02:30 | 1h 30m | 367 | 459 |
| 7 | April 16, 2023 05:00 | April 16, 2023 06:45 | 1h 45m | 367 | 551 |
| 8 | July 28, 2023 23:00 | August 1, 2023 20:00 | 3d 21h | 325 | 1,678 |
| 9 | June 13, 2023 09:30 | June 13, 2023 12:15 | 2h 45m | 175 | 306 |
| 10 | October 9, 2023 23:15 | October 13, 2023 17:45 | 3d 18h | 175 | 518 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 15 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 Franklin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2023 | 2.8 hrs | 1.13 | 78 min | 0.83 |
| Butler County Rural Elec Coop - (IA) | 2023 | 71 min | 0.68 | 71 min | 0.68 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (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 ÷ 4,637 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. Franklin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Franklin 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/franklin-county