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2024 Audubon County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Audubon County, IA went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1463rd 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 Audubon 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 7, 2024 03:00 | May 7, 2024 16:45 | 13h 45m | 908 | 2,296 |
| 2 | May 21, 2024 07:00 | May 21, 2024 15:45 | 8h 45m | 748 | 1,777 |
| 3 | November 25, 2024 22:15 | November 26, 2024 00:45 | 2h 30m | 731 | 544 |
| 4 | May 14, 2024 18:45 | May 14, 2024 19:30 | 45m | 187 | 51 |
| 5 | October 24, 2024 23:30 | October 25, 2024 02:15 | 2h 45m | 162 | 243 |
| 6 | September 21, 2024 19:00 | September 23, 2024 12:00 | 1d 17h | 120 | 3,892 |
| 7 | April 26, 2024 12:45 | April 26, 2024 14:30 | 1h 45m | 108 | 108 |
| 8 | July 20, 2024 00:45 | July 23, 2024 11:00 | 3d 10h | 101 | 2,761 |
| 9 | March 16, 2024 19:00 | March 16, 2024 20:45 | 1h 45m | 79 | 137 |
| 10 | June 17, 2024 22:15 | June 18, 2024 00:45 | 2h 30m | 76 | 86 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 8 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 Audubon 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 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | 2018 | 47 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.76 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (IA) | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 1.44 | 2.1 hrs | 1.26 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Guthrie County Rural E C A | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nishnabotna Valley R E C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Atlantic Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kimballton - (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 ÷ 2,511 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. Audubon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Audubon 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/audubon-county