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2024 Wapello County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Wapello County, IA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 68K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2066th 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 Wapello 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 | July 30, 2024 09:45 | July 30, 2024 23:15 | 13h 30m | 3,487 | 11K |
| 2 | June 20, 2024 14:30 | June 20, 2024 21:45 | 7h 15m | 2,591 | 2,786 |
| 3 | December 14, 2024 11:00 | December 15, 2024 04:00 | 17h | 2,346 | 12K |
| 4 | July 2, 2024 22:45 | July 3, 2024 01:15 | 2h 30m | 1,935 | 2,538 |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 11:00 | January 10, 2024 20:45 | 1d 9h | 1,178 | 11K |
| 6 | July 23, 2024 09:45 | July 23, 2024 11:45 | 2h | 1,089 | 1,079 |
| 7 | July 15, 2024 23:45 | July 16, 2024 04:15 | 4h 30m | 1,009 | 1,293 |
| 8 | May 17, 2024 22:15 | May 17, 2024 23:15 | 1h | 981 | 980 |
| 9 | January 4, 2024 15:15 | January 5, 2024 16:15 | 1d 1h | 970 | 1,636 |
| 10 | February 15, 2024 09:45 | February 15, 2024 11:15 | 1h 30m | 965 | 929 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 39 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Wapello 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 |
| Chariton Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 |
| Southern Iowa Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 21,960 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. Wapello County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wapello 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/wapello-county