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2025 Cedar County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Cedar County, IA went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.9 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2281st of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cedar County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 8, 2025 03:15 | September 8, 2025 09:00 | 5h 45m | 1,855 | 8,741 |
| 2 | May 16, 2025 05:30 | May 16, 2025 08:30 | 3h | 689 | 1,837 |
| 3 | October 23, 2025 12:45 | October 23, 2025 18:30 | 5h 45m | 570 | 294 |
| 4 | July 1, 2025 21:00 | July 1, 2025 23:15 | 2h 15m | 317 | 302 |
| 5 | May 6, 2025 14:00 | May 7, 2025 00:30 | 10h 30m | 237 | 882 |
| 6 | November 26, 2025 09:30 | November 26, 2025 18:00 | 8h 30m | 199 | 850 |
| 7 | April 27, 2025 18:30 | April 27, 2025 20:45 | 2h 15m | 191 | 129 |
| 8 | July 5, 2025 22:15 | July 6, 2025 02:15 | 4h | 144 | 338 |
| 9 | July 11, 2025 12:30 | July 11, 2025 18:45 | 6h 15m | 131 | 511 |
| 10 | May 15, 2025 14:15 | May 15, 2025 21:45 | 7h 30m | 125 | 133 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 16 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 Cedar County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop | 2024 | 3.7 hrs | 1.29 | 1.6 hrs | 0.90 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2024 | 2.2 hrs | 1.20 | 71 min | 0.82 |
| Linn County REC | 2024 | 1.9 hrs | 1.50 | 1.9 hrs | 1.50 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Durant - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wilton - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Tipton - (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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,986 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. Cedar County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cedar County, IA annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/iowa/cedar-county