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2023 Wright County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wright County, IA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 7,586 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2536th 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 Wright 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 24, 2023 22:00 | June 24, 2023 22:15 | 15m | 1,421 | 355 |
| 2 | September 14, 2023 06:45 | September 14, 2023 13:15 | 6h 30m | 913 | 1,373 |
| 3 | August 5, 2023 23:00 | August 7, 2023 12:30 | 1d 13h | 698 | 931 |
| 4 | April 19, 2023 05:30 | April 19, 2023 09:00 | 3h 30m | 421 | 947 |
| 5 | May 7, 2023 13:30 | May 7, 2023 15:30 | 2h | 144 | 255 |
| 6 | March 16, 2023 21:15 | March 17, 2023 02:00 | 4h 45m | 97 | 461 |
| 7 | June 23, 2023 11:45 | June 23, 2023 13:15 | 1h 30m | 84 | 126 |
| 8 | May 7, 2023 09:00 | May 7, 2023 11:45 | 2h 45m | 83 | 228 |
| 9 | May 27, 2023 13:30 | May 27, 2023 16:30 | 3h | 76 | 115 |
| 10 | March 31, 2023 20:30 | April 1, 2023 00:15 | 3h 45m | 68 | 137 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 5 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 Wright 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Boone Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cass Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Woolstock - (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 ÷ 5,538 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. Wright County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wright 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/wright-county