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2024 Benton County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Benton County, IA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 91st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2688th 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 Benton 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 | July 15, 2024 21:45 | July 16, 2024 09:45 | 12h | 1,806 | 761 |
| 2 | March 3, 2024 19:45 | March 4, 2024 03:45 | 8h | 1,055 | 1,392 |
| 3 | April 13, 2024 23:00 | April 15, 2024 18:45 | 1d 19h | 994 | 492 |
| 4 | July 24, 2024 13:15 | July 24, 2024 17:15 | 4h | 654 | 1,146 |
| 5 | May 24, 2024 11:45 | May 24, 2024 18:15 | 6h 30m | 608 | 189 |
| 6 | September 11, 2024 19:15 | September 11, 2024 20:45 | 1h 30m | 568 | 837 |
| 7 | December 8, 2024 04:00 | December 8, 2024 06:45 | 2h 45m | 464 | 349 |
| 8 | August 11, 2024 00:00 | August 11, 2024 01:30 | 1h 30m | 394 | 591 |
| 9 | April 2, 2024 23:30 | April 3, 2024 01:30 | 2h | 332 | 298 |
| 10 | September 5, 2024 18:00 | September 5, 2024 18:45 | 45m | 289 | 205 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 24 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Benton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2024 | 38 min | 0.53 | 38 min | 0.53 |
| T I P Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 |
| Linn County REC | 2024 | 1.9 hrs | 1.50 | 1.9 hrs | 1.50 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Traer - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Vinton - (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 ÷ 13,498 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. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton 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/benton-county