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2023 Wapello County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wapello County, IA went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2013th 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 Wapello 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 | June 29, 2023 14:45 | June 30, 2023 00:30 | 9h 45m | 5,742 | 13K |
| 2 | March 26, 2023 06:15 | March 26, 2023 08:15 | 2h | 1,247 | 2,181 |
| 3 | October 6, 2023 13:45 | October 6, 2023 16:45 | 3h | 1,159 | 293 |
| 4 | July 29, 2023 22:00 | July 30, 2023 02:15 | 4h 15m | 1,143 | 471 |
| 5 | November 9, 2023 19:30 | November 10, 2023 15:15 | 19h 45m | 1,066 | 21K |
| 6 | December 29, 2023 17:15 | December 29, 2023 18:45 | 1h 30m | 962 | 242 |
| 7 | March 25, 2023 06:15 | March 25, 2023 07:00 | 45m | 948 | 711 |
| 8 | December 1, 2023 14:30 | December 1, 2023 15:30 | 1h | 782 | 239 |
| 9 | April 7, 2023 17:30 | April 7, 2023 18:15 | 45m | 655 | 491 |
| 10 | April 20, 2023 14:45 | April 20, 2023 17:00 | 2h 15m | 653 | 1,303 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 29 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Wapello 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 |
| T I P Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 |
| Chariton Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 |
| Southern Iowa Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 21,960 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. Wapello County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wapello 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/wapello-county