Guthrie County, Iowa Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Guthrie County, Iowa had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.61 times the US outage time per person and 0.71 times the Iowa rate. It ranks 29 of 97 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Dechardest months

August and December made up 73% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 11, 2020, reached 1,057 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 72.5 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	17,729	18	0
2016	4,331	8	0
2017	3,497	10	0
2018	2,377	4	0
2019	3,278	7	0
2020	81,149	12	2
2021	28,316	7	1
2022	2,510	5	0
2023	507	4	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 11, 2020	72.5	1,057	35,893
Aug 10, 2020	15.2	2,485	25,272
Dec 15, 2021	25.0	2,666	25,256
Aug 10, 2020	6.2	2,574	13,524
Nov 5, 2015	4.2	1,839	7,816

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.