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2023 Woodbury County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Woodbury County, IA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2524th 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 Woodbury 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 14, 2023 17:30 | July 15, 2023 00:00 | 6h 30m | 2,227 | 4,478 |
| 2 | March 16, 2023 12:45 | March 16, 2023 13:30 | 45m | 1,691 | 1,268 |
| 3 | April 13, 2023 19:45 | April 13, 2023 23:30 | 3h 45m | 1,547 | 790 |
| 4 | September 4, 2023 22:45 | September 5, 2023 02:30 | 3h 45m | 1,502 | 870 |
| 5 | July 12, 2023 10:45 | July 13, 2023 01:45 | 15h | 1,320 | 6,397 |
| 6 | August 24, 2023 21:30 | August 25, 2023 01:45 | 4h 15m | 1,115 | 319 |
| 7 | December 28, 2023 21:45 | December 29, 2023 00:45 | 3h | 1,104 | 564 |
| 8 | September 11, 2023 14:45 | September 11, 2023 19:15 | 4h 30m | 673 | 176 |
| 9 | December 25, 2023 17:15 | December 26, 2023 02:30 | 9h 15m | 544 | 473 |
| 10 | November 9, 2023 13:30 | November 13, 2023 15:00 | 4d 1h | 511 | 886 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 34 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Woodbury 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 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2018 | 47 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.76 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Woodbury County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Anthon - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sergeant Bluff - (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 ÷ 25,626 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. Woodbury County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Woodbury 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/woodbury-county