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2023 Webster County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Webster County, IA went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2765th 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 Webster 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 | August 22, 2023 03:15 | August 22, 2023 07:15 | 4h | 933 | 1,083 |
| 2 | November 1, 2023 18:00 | November 2, 2023 02:30 | 8h 30m | 489 | 765 |
| 3 | September 20, 2023 11:30 | September 20, 2023 19:15 | 7h 45m | 440 | 997 |
| 4 | October 13, 2023 04:30 | October 13, 2023 16:00 | 11h 30m | 405 | 1,219 |
| 5 | March 23, 2023 12:30 | March 23, 2023 17:15 | 4h 45m | 315 | 241 |
| 6 | June 17, 2023 21:15 | June 18, 2023 02:15 | 5h | 239 | 1,069 |
| 7 | July 6, 2023 13:30 | July 6, 2023 13:45 | 15m | 237 | 59 |
| 8 | October 2, 2023 01:45 | October 2, 2023 05:00 | 3h 15m | 209 | 338 |
| 9 | June 10, 2023 13:15 | June 10, 2023 14:30 | 1h 15m | 177 | 157 |
| 10 | May 24, 2023 07:30 | May 24, 2023 09:00 | 1h 30m | 158 | 76 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 16 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 Webster 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Calhoun County Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Stratford - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Callender - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dayton - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lehigh - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gowrie Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 20,411 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. Webster County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Webster 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/webster-county