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2023 Monroe County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Monroe County, IA went without power for an average of 16.8 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 513th 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 Monroe 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 18, 2023 13:00 | March 20, 2023 13:30 | 2d | 866 | 40K |
| 2 | April 5, 2023 11:15 | April 5, 2023 13:45 | 2h 30m | 809 | 266 |
| 3 | January 13, 2023 07:00 | January 13, 2023 12:00 | 5h | 726 | 1,514 |
| 4 | February 7, 2023 13:15 | February 7, 2023 15:30 | 2h 15m | 723 | 730 |
| 5 | November 21, 2023 09:45 | November 21, 2023 13:30 | 3h 45m | 723 | 2,696 |
| 6 | July 26, 2023 14:15 | July 26, 2023 16:15 | 2h | 714 | 358 |
| 7 | June 29, 2023 12:45 | June 29, 2023 16:30 | 3h 45m | 528 | 383 |
| 8 | March 28, 2023 13:30 | March 28, 2023 17:45 | 4h 15m | 502 | 375 |
| 9 | June 24, 2023 14:15 | June 24, 2023 16:30 | 2h 15m | 481 | 527 |
| 10 | June 10, 2023 05:15 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 1d 7h | 466 | 414 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 38 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 Monroe 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 |
| Chariton Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,056 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. Monroe County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monroe 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/monroe-county