Allamakee County, Iowa Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Allamakee County, Iowa had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.58 times the US outage time per person and 0.68 times the Iowa rate. It ranks 35 of 97 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

24 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Dechardest months

July and December made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 19, 2017, reached 3,098 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 24.0 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	11,350	13	0
2016	17,386	13	0
2017	52,739	11	1
2018	22,312	14	2
2019	8,419	12	0
2020	2,754	3	0
2021	31,029	11	0
2022	23,053	15	1
2023	11,104	9	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
Jul 19, 2017	24.0	3,098	37,457
Dec 16, 2021	4.2	2,648	11,250
Jul 24, 2022	13.5	1,636	9,848
Mar 24, 2016	2.2	3,957	8,458
Dec 16, 2021	2.5	2,648	6,617

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.