Webster County, Iowa Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Webster County, Iowa had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.59 times the US outage time per person and 0.69 times the Iowa rate. It ranks 34 of 97 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

52 hrslongest major outage

May, Julhardest months

May and July made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 17, 2017, reached 10,470 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 15.5 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	2,446	5	0
2016	123,273	26	3
2017	177,054	25	2
2018	17,726	17	0
2019	8,636	14	0
2020	29,812	15	1
2021	104,775	19	2
2022	10,162	10	0
2023	5,421	8	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
May 17, 2017	15.5	10,470	111,142
Dec 16, 2021	52.2	3,269	77,234
Jul 17, 2016	14.0	8,386	59,422
May 17, 2017	24.5	3,492	40,620
Jul 17, 2016	3.5	11,490	30,251

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.