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2023 Ringgold County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ringgold County, IA went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 9,988 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1673rd 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 Ringgold 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 | July 12, 2023 12:15 | July 12, 2023 18:45 | 6h 30m | 1,553 | 2,522 |
| 2 | April 5, 2023 11:45 | April 5, 2023 14:45 | 3h | 971 | 646 |
| 3 | September 23, 2023 21:30 | September 23, 2023 22:00 | 30m | 559 | 141 |
| 4 | June 5, 2023 13:00 | June 5, 2023 17:00 | 4h | 330 | 232 |
| 5 | June 30, 2023 12:00 | June 30, 2023 20:30 | 8h 30m | 293 | 544 |
| 6 | November 24, 2023 18:30 | November 24, 2023 19:30 | 1h | 271 | 137 |
| 7 | March 15, 2023 20:30 | March 15, 2023 22:45 | 2h 15m | 237 | 237 |
| 8 | July 17, 2023 12:30 | July 17, 2023 16:30 | 4h | 192 | 158 |
| 9 | April 2, 2023 16:15 | April 2, 2023 19:15 | 3h | 186 | 270 |
| 10 | April 4, 2023 23:45 | April 5, 2023 01:00 | 1h 15m | 180 | 225 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 15 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Ringgold 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 1.69 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grundy Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke Electric Coop Inc - (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 ÷ 2,511 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. Ringgold County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ringgold 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/ringgold-county