Benton County, Iowa Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.29 times the US outage time per person and 2.69 times the Iowa rate. It ranks 6 of 97 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

212 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 94% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 10, 2020, reached 10,178 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 211.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Iowa counties

MostLeast

Outage impact by year

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

0.5M

1.5M

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	17,546	19	0
2016	21,472	25	1
2017	7,259	11	0
2018	2,646	3	0
2019	8,534	13	0
2020	1,217,228	14	3
2021	10,634	14	0
2022	6,530	17	0
2023	10,902	16	0

When outages hit

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

25%

50%

75%

100%

JanJFebFMarMAprAMayMJunJJulJAugASepSOctONovNDecD

Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Aug 10, 2020	211.5	10,178	1,167,936
Aug 19, 2020	82.2	1,210	33,422
Mar 29, 2020	16.0	436	6,824
Mar 19, 2015	2.2	2,532	5,091
Sep 6, 2020	3.8	1,144	3,336

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.

Look up another county

Counties ranked nearby

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.