Muscatine County, Iowa Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Muscatine County, Iowa had 2 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.21 times the US outage time per person and 0.24 times the Iowa rate. It ranks 70 of 97 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

126 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Febhardest months

August and February made up 67% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 10, 2020, reached 3,045 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 126.2 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	3,718	9	0
2016	886	1	0
2017	1,565	10	0
2018	9,714	14	0
2019	23,295	16	1
2020	119,740	22	1
2021	16,191	23	0
2022	4,120	14	0
2023	10,951	11	0

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
Aug 10, 2020	126.2	3,045	107,795
Sep 14, 2021	21.8	390	8,482
Feb 12, 2019	15.8	820	7,344
Mar 19, 2019	17.0	398	5,436
Nov 4, 2018	19.5	228	4,302

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.