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2024 Poweshiek County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Poweshiek County, IA went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1645th 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 Poweshiek 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 23:00 | May 22, 2024 18:00 | 19h | 2,393 | 8,579 |
| 2 | May 27, 2024 18:30 | May 28, 2024 00:30 | 6h | 1,318 | 2,673 |
| 3 | May 28, 2024 19:45 | May 29, 2024 01:00 | 5h 15m | 810 | 2,740 |
| 4 | March 29, 2024 08:30 | March 29, 2024 12:30 | 4h | 808 | 1,141 |
| 5 | September 21, 2024 15:30 | September 21, 2024 17:30 | 2h | 692 | 175 |
| 6 | May 24, 2024 11:15 | May 25, 2024 01:45 | 14h 30m | 644 | 3,387 |
| 7 | December 23, 2024 17:15 | December 23, 2024 18:45 | 1h 30m | 477 | 300 |
| 8 | May 2, 2024 10:45 | May 2, 2024 12:30 | 1h 45m | 418 | 120 |
| 9 | May 27, 2024 13:15 | May 27, 2024 17:15 | 4h | 403 | 1,383 |
| 10 | August 6, 2024 13:15 | August 6, 2024 15:15 | 2h | 388 | 101 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 39 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 Poweshiek 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 |
| T I P Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 | 2.5 hrs | 1.33 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pella Cooperative Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Brooklyn - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Montezuma - (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 ÷ 6,708 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. Poweshiek County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Poweshiek 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/poweshiek-county