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2024 Union County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Union County, IA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2336th 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 Union 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 | October 22, 2024 17:45 | October 22, 2024 18:45 | 1h | 1,911 | 958 |
| 2 | January 4, 2024 15:15 | January 4, 2024 18:45 | 3h 30m | 1,841 | 488 |
| 3 | April 26, 2024 23:30 | April 28, 2024 02:30 | 1d 3h | 1,512 | 3,568 |
| 4 | August 1, 2024 00:15 | August 1, 2024 05:00 | 4h 45m | 960 | 761 |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 12:30 | January 10, 2024 16:45 | 1d 4h | 465 | 1,434 |
| 6 | September 22, 2024 02:45 | September 22, 2024 06:15 | 3h 30m | 423 | 1,070 |
| 7 | October 25, 2024 01:45 | October 25, 2024 05:30 | 3h 45m | 331 | 632 |
| 8 | July 31, 2024 14:45 | July 31, 2024 15:00 | 15m | 240 | 60 |
| 9 | November 1, 2024 17:00 | November 1, 2024 19:30 | 2h 30m | 159 | 121 |
| 10 | October 1, 2024 13:45 | October 1, 2024 19:00 | 5h 15m | 147 | 160 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 16 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Union 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 |
| Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (IA) | 2018 | 5.9 hrs | 1.44 | 2.1 hrs | 1.26 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke Electric Coop Inc - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Afton- (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 ÷ 6,645 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county