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2025 Marion County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Marion County, IA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.9 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2468th 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 Marion 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 | March 14, 2025 22:45 | March 15, 2025 21:15 | 22h 30m | 2,599 | 7,894 |
| 2 | March 5, 2025 02:45 | March 5, 2025 06:15 | 3h 30m | 1,822 | 3,423 |
| 3 | July 28, 2025 08:45 | July 28, 2025 17:00 | 8h 15m | 1,537 | 3,871 |
| 4 | July 30, 2025 09:15 | July 30, 2025 16:15 | 7h | 860 | 3,937 |
| 5 | May 19, 2025 11:45 | May 19, 2025 18:45 | 7h | 818 | 1,822 |
| 6 | March 5, 2025 11:15 | March 5, 2025 21:30 | 10h 15m | 613 | 2,458 |
| 7 | June 26, 2025 23:00 | June 27, 2025 08:30 | 9h 30m | 574 | 1,557 |
| 8 | March 17, 2025 07:15 | March 17, 2025 09:00 | 1h 45m | 532 | 762 |
| 9 | April 20, 2025 18:15 | April 20, 2025 22:45 | 4h 30m | 428 | 1,458 |
| 10 | September 19, 2025 12:45 | September 19, 2025 15:45 | 3h | 328 | 790 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 21 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 Marion 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2024 | 5.5 hrs | 1.42 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| Chariton Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 | 2.3 hrs | 1.23 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clarke Electric Coop Inc - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pella Cooperative Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Pella - (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 ÷ 19,876 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. Marion County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Marion 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/marion-county