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2023 Plymouth County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Plymouth County, IA went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 7,504 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2716th 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 Plymouth 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 | October 13, 2023 00:30 | October 13, 2023 09:15 | 8h 45m | 513 | 1,178 |
| 2 | December 25, 2023 15:00 | December 26, 2023 13:45 | 22h 45m | 377 | 1,008 |
| 3 | December 28, 2023 22:45 | December 29, 2023 00:30 | 1h 45m | 280 | 477 |
| 4 | August 5, 2023 06:00 | August 5, 2023 11:00 | 5h | 194 | 733 |
| 5 | September 11, 2023 15:00 | September 11, 2023 16:15 | 1h 15m | 189 | 236 |
| 6 | December 22, 2023 02:45 | December 22, 2023 04:30 | 1h 45m | 188 | 329 |
| 7 | October 22, 2023 00:45 | October 22, 2023 01:45 | 1h | 181 | 181 |
| 8 | July 24, 2023 16:15 | July 24, 2023 16:30 | 15m | 158 | 40 |
| 9 | August 11, 2023 22:45 | August 12, 2023 00:15 | 1h 30m | 155 | 156 |
| 10 | August 18, 2023 17:30 | August 18, 2023 20:30 | 3h | 128 | 238 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 11 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 Plymouth 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Woodbury County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Akron - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hinton | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Remsen - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Westfield - (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 ÷ 8,581 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. Plymouth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Plymouth 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/plymouth-county