Washington County, Iowa Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington 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 0.72 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

3 of 9years with a major outage

28 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 10, 2020, reached 6,817 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.8 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	24,458	17	0
2016	15,936	10	0
2017	9,185	12	0
2018	57,663	16	1
2019	21,490	31	1
2020	119,435	28	1
2021	30,138	20	0
2022	5,586	10	0
2023	20,026	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	27.8	6,817	83,738
Mar 24, 2018	12.5	3,410	25,572
Sep 18, 2018	6.5	2,661	12,901
Dec 16, 2021	4.5	3,147	10,682
Mar 31, 2023	5.5	2,001	8,982

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.