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2024 Fayette County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Fayette County, IA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2392nd 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 Fayette 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 | April 7, 2024 05:30 | April 8, 2024 13:15 | 1d 7h | 1,398 | 2,243 |
| 2 | May 21, 2024 23:45 | May 23, 2024 16:15 | 1d 16h | 1,144 | 5,507 |
| 3 | October 13, 2024 22:45 | October 14, 2024 02:00 | 3h 15m | 623 | 1,161 |
| 4 | April 25, 2024 19:30 | April 25, 2024 20:15 | 45m | 540 | 135 |
| 5 | October 6, 2024 20:15 | October 7, 2024 13:15 | 17h | 314 | 1,307 |
| 6 | July 15, 2024 22:30 | July 16, 2024 04:15 | 5h 45m | 278 | 1,376 |
| 7 | December 1, 2024 20:00 | December 1, 2024 20:30 | 30m | 270 | 135 |
| 8 | June 12, 2024 20:15 | June 13, 2024 00:45 | 4h 30m | 261 | 267 |
| 9 | December 6, 2024 18:15 | December 6, 2024 21:30 | 3h 15m | 232 | 229 |
| 10 | November 12, 2024 14:30 | November 12, 2024 20:45 | 6h 15m | 112 | 249 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 11 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 Fayette 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2024 | 85 min | 0.70 | 64 min | 0.60 |
| Allamakee-Clayton El Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 | 1.5 hrs | 0.73 |
| Butler County Rural Elec Coop - (IA) | 2024 | 86 min | 0.75 | 66 min | 0.64 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairbank - (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 ÷ 8,712 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. Fayette County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Fayette 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/fayette-county