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2023 Ida County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ida County, IA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 3,500 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2649th 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 Ida 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 29, 2023 03:45 | August 29, 2023 07:15 | 3h 30m | 686 | 2,401 |
| 2 | August 11, 2023 16:45 | August 11, 2023 18:30 | 1h 45m | 63 | 98 |
| 3 | December 24, 2023 12:00 | December 24, 2023 15:00 | 3h | 58 | 84 |
| 4 | October 26, 2023 19:00 | October 26, 2023 20:15 | 1h 15m | 50 | 63 |
| 5 | November 5, 2023 18:45 | November 5, 2023 21:45 | 3h | 39 | 12 |
| 6 | September 24, 2023 12:30 | September 24, 2023 18:45 | 6h 15m | 32 | 99 |
| 7 | August 6, 2023 03:00 | August 6, 2023 07:15 | 4h 15m | 23 | 55 |
| 8 | August 6, 2023 20:45 | August 6, 2023 22:15 | 1h 30m | 23 | 35 |
| 9 | October 12, 2023 11:15 | October 12, 2023 14:00 | 2h 45m | 22 | 60 |
| 10 | December 25, 2023 14:45 | December 25, 2023 19:00 | 4h 15m | 22 | 36 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 1 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 Ida 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 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2023 | 52 min | 0.51 | 52 min | 0.51 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2018 | 47 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.76 |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Woodbury County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 3,231 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. Ida County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ida 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/ida-county