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2024 Adams County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Adams County, IA went without power for an average of 19.1 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 528th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 21, 2024 20:15 | May 24, 2024 00:15 | 2d 4h | 658 | 22K |
| 2 | April 11, 2024 13:15 | April 11, 2024 13:45 | 30m | 580 | 181 |
| 3 | February 16, 2024 19:45 | February 16, 2024 21:15 | 1h 30m | 343 | 428 |
| 4 | April 26, 2024 23:30 | April 27, 2024 22:30 | 23h | 327 | 1,088 |
| 5 | October 2, 2024 19:45 | October 2, 2024 23:15 | 3h 30m | 321 | 409 |
| 6 | August 31, 2024 02:15 | September 4, 2024 20:45 | 4d 18h | 298 | 3,135 |
| 7 | September 16, 2024 06:15 | September 16, 2024 08:45 | 2h 30m | 285 | 296 |
| 8 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | May 30, 2024 20:45 | 6d 11h | 271 | 2,719 |
| 9 | June 21, 2024 16:30 | June 21, 2024 17:30 | 1h | 271 | 69 |
| 10 | June 17, 2024 13:45 | June 17, 2024 21:15 | 7h 30m | 241 | 143 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 23 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 Adams County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 5.5 hrs | 1.42 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 1.69 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Corning - (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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,844 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. Adams County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Adams County, IA annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/iowa/adams-county