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2023 Taylor County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Taylor County, IA went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 6,491 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2217th 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 Taylor 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 12:45 | July 12, 2023 17:15 | 4h 30m | 609 | 703 |
| 2 | June 28, 2023 00:00 | June 28, 2023 01:00 | 1h | 216 | 216 |
| 3 | July 7, 2023 17:15 | July 7, 2023 22:15 | 5h | 197 | 881 |
| 4 | April 4, 2023 19:15 | April 5, 2023 05:30 | 10h 15m | 149 | 355 |
| 5 | April 15, 2023 21:30 | April 15, 2023 22:45 | 1h 15m | 119 | 133 |
| 6 | March 15, 2023 20:45 | March 16, 2023 05:30 | 8h 45m | 104 | 150 |
| 7 | August 10, 2023 17:15 | August 10, 2023 19:30 | 2h 15m | 104 | 134 |
| 8 | April 2, 2023 16:15 | April 2, 2023 17:45 | 1h 30m | 103 | 148 |
| 9 | August 22, 2023 13:45 | August 22, 2023 17:30 | 3h 45m | 101 | 133 |
| 10 | August 24, 2023 14:30 | August 24, 2023 16:00 | 1h 30m | 100 | 150 |
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 Taylor 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 |
| 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lenox - (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 ÷ 2,951 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. Taylor County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Taylor 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/taylor-county