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2024 Wright County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Wright County, IA went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2033rd 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 Wright 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 24, 2024 10:45 | May 28, 2024 12:45 | 4d 2h | 2,110 | 3,715 |
| 2 | July 29, 2024 02:00 | July 29, 2024 04:15 | 2h 15m | 1,189 | 2,218 |
| 3 | May 21, 2024 21:15 | May 22, 2024 12:15 | 15h | 1,036 | 3,526 |
| 4 | March 14, 2024 09:45 | March 14, 2024 12:00 | 2h 15m | 532 | 931 |
| 5 | March 20, 2024 03:00 | March 20, 2024 12:45 | 9h 45m | 372 | 817 |
| 6 | April 7, 2024 08:00 | April 7, 2024 09:45 | 1h 45m | 342 | 599 |
| 7 | March 20, 2024 17:00 | March 20, 2024 17:15 | 15m | 340 | 85 |
| 8 | October 22, 2024 02:45 | October 22, 2024 20:00 | 17h 15m | 165 | 1,625 |
| 9 | December 15, 2024 17:45 | December 15, 2024 19:00 | 1h 15m | 161 | 201 |
| 10 | September 9, 2024 12:45 | September 9, 2024 19:00 | 6h 15m | 117 | 184 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 11 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 Wright 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Boone Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cass Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Woolstock - (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 ÷ 5,538 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. Wright County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wright 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/wright-county