Woodbury County, Iowa Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.21 times the US outage time per person and 0.25 times the Iowa rate. It ranks 70 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

36 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Dechardest months

June and December made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 18, 2016, reached 10,213 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 35.8 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	5,856	7	0
2016	183,146	39	1
2017	39,735	36	0
2018	32,907	28	0
2019	37,872	31	0
2020	62,532	43	1
2021	83,110	43	1
2022	36,932	38	0
2023	21,578	25	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
Jun 18, 2016	35.8	10,213	138,863
Dec 15, 2021	10.5	2,576	14,615
Jun 14, 2017	5.5	4,287	13,692
Dec 16, 2021	16.0	1,030	11,610
Feb 25, 2017	1.5	6,252	8,516

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.