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2024 Taylor County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Taylor County, IA went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1378th 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 Taylor 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 1, 2024 21:45 | May 2, 2024 01:00 | 3h 15m | 1,654 | 4,591 |
| 2 | May 20, 2024 03:45 | May 20, 2024 08:30 | 4h 45m | 275 | 824 |
| 3 | May 24, 2024 09:30 | May 26, 2024 14:30 | 2d 5h | 269 | 1,000 |
| 4 | May 21, 2024 20:15 | May 23, 2024 18:00 | 1d 21h | 263 | 7,710 |
| 5 | June 21, 2024 16:30 | June 21, 2024 16:45 | 15m | 235 | 59 |
| 6 | September 29, 2024 18:15 | September 29, 2024 20:45 | 2h 30m | 229 | 401 |
| 7 | February 27, 2024 18:00 | February 27, 2024 19:00 | 1h | 218 | 110 |
| 8 | June 29, 2024 11:30 | June 29, 2024 13:45 | 2h 15m | 216 | 486 |
| 9 | August 2, 2024 19:00 | August 2, 2024 20:15 | 1h 15m | 167 | 209 |
| 10 | January 9, 2024 17:45 | January 10, 2024 05:45 | 12h | 113 | 419 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 10 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 Taylor 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (MO) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lenox - (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 ÷ 2,951 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. Taylor County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Taylor 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/taylor-county