Monroe County, Iowa Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Monroe County, Iowa had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.41 times the US outage time per person and 1.66 times the Iowa rate. It ranks 9 of 97 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

26 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 6, 2017, reached 1,928 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 26.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Iowa counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	806	1	0
2016	13,064	14	0
2017	57,946	9	1
2018	9,280	13	0
2019	24,207	29	1
2020	26,864	16	1
2021	16,162	23	2
2022	28,129	30	3
2023	52,517	24	2

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Jun 6, 2017	26.2	1,928	50,124
Mar 19, 2023	23.8	866	20,568
Feb 29, 2020	14.5	1,349	19,525
Mar 18, 2023	16.5	866	14,069
Dec 16, 2021	16.0	1,014	6,918

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.