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2024 Mills County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Mills County, IA went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1839th 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 Mills 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 | June 14, 2024 14:30 | June 14, 2024 16:45 | 2h 15m | 2,185 | 1,098 |
| 2 | May 14, 2024 06:45 | May 14, 2024 09:45 | 3h | 1,224 | 2,454 |
| 3 | June 25, 2024 21:00 | June 27, 2024 11:15 | 1d 14h | 1,148 | 3,273 |
| 4 | May 7, 2024 01:15 | May 7, 2024 18:00 | 16h 45m | 1,125 | 2,516 |
| 5 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | May 25, 2024 09:45 | 1d | 809 | 3,378 |
| 6 | January 13, 2024 19:15 | January 13, 2024 20:15 | 1h | 769 | 769 |
| 7 | April 6, 2024 20:30 | April 7, 2024 05:45 | 9h 15m | 570 | 1,669 |
| 8 | January 9, 2024 08:30 | January 10, 2024 06:15 | 21h 45m | 323 | 3,674 |
| 9 | November 23, 2024 01:45 | November 23, 2024 04:45 | 3h | 323 | 646 |
| 10 | May 31, 2024 02:15 | May 31, 2024 04:30 | 2h 15m | 190 | 400 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 18 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Mills 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 |
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 ÷ 7,270 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. Mills County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mills 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/mills-county