Pottawattamie County, Iowa Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Pottawattamie County, Iowa had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.40 times the US outage time per person and 0.47 times the Iowa rate. It ranks 46 of 97 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Dechardest months

July and December made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 10, 2021, reached 12,888 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 83.8 hours.

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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	30,735	15	0
2016	82,235	46	0
2017	74,243	40	2
2018	79,730	63	0
2019	66,528	42	0
2020	53,466	35	1
2021	307,050	38	2
2022	42,447	29	1
2023	80,468	29	1

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
Jul 10, 2021	83.8	12,888	186,951
Dec 15, 2021	47.5	7,608	72,030
Jul 12, 2023	10.0	8,116	35,981
Feb 2, 2016	6.8	5,496	18,985
Mar 6, 2017	8.5	3,750	15,788

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.