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2024 Ringgold County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Ringgold County, IA went without power for an average of 12.8 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 748th 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 Ringgold 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 27, 2024 00:45 | April 30, 2024 21:30 | 3d 20h | 1,783 | 21K |
| 2 | June 7, 2024 14:45 | June 7, 2024 15:00 | 15m | 766 | 192 |
| 3 | November 22, 2024 17:00 | November 22, 2024 18:15 | 1h 15m | 571 | 714 |
| 4 | November 7, 2024 15:45 | November 7, 2024 17:00 | 1h 15m | 570 | 285 |
| 5 | May 4, 2024 17:30 | May 4, 2024 18:00 | 30m | 562 | 143 |
| 6 | July 17, 2024 16:45 | July 17, 2024 20:30 | 3h 45m | 562 | 284 |
| 7 | March 8, 2024 00:00 | March 8, 2024 01:30 | 1h 30m | 554 | 141 |
| 8 | January 9, 2024 18:30 | January 10, 2024 02:00 | 7h 30m | 475 | 895 |
| 9 | April 9, 2024 04:30 | April 9, 2024 09:00 | 4h 30m | 381 | 1,715 |
| 10 | September 22, 2024 12:45 | September 22, 2024 14:00 | 1h 15m | 290 | 76 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 24 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Ringgold 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 1.69 | 1.6 hrs | 1.21 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grundy Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke Electric Coop Inc - (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. Ringgold County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ringgold 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/ringgold-county