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Iowa Power Outages

As of July 18, 2026 17:01 UTC, about 111 customers are currently without power across 8 counties in Iowa.

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COUNTIES WITH ACTIVE OUTAGES

MOST OUTAGE-PRONE COUNTIES (2025)

  1. 1Harrison County18.4h/cust
  2. 2Sac County17.8h/cust
  3. 3Hancock County16.8h/cust
  4. 4Butler County14.1h/cust
  5. 5Calhoun County13.2h/cust
  6. 6Worth County12.6h/cust
  7. 7Monona County12.1h/cust
  8. 8Wright County11.7h/cust
OUTAGE TREND
Iowa
111
AS OF LAST UPDATE · PEAK 2,471
Updated July 18, 2026
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Cost of power in Iowa

▲ 26% since 2010

What Iowapays for electricity, from the US EIA — and how fast it’s rising as national demand climbs. See energy & the AI data-center surge.

Residential
13.9¢
per kWh
Commercial
10.3¢
per kWh
Industrial
6.3¢
per kWh
RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh BY YEAR
10.5¢201010.5¢201110.8¢201211.1¢201311.2¢201411.7¢201511.9¢201612.3¢201712.3¢201812.5¢201912.5¢202012.7¢202113.2¢202213.3¢202313.4¢202413.7¢202513.2¢2026

Retail prices from the US EIA (Form 861). Energy & the data-center surge →

Hardest-hit cities statewide

The individual towns and townships with the most customers out right now.

Des MoinesPOLK COUNTY40AnkenyPOLK COUNTY40West Des MoinesPOLK COUNTY40UrbandalePOLK COUNTY40Sioux CityWOODBURY COUNTY11Cedar RapidsLINN COUNTY2MarionLINN COUNTY2

A decade of outages in Iowa

US annual reports →

Average hours without power per customer each year (EAGLE-I).

1.1h20151.8h20162.0h20172.2h20182.2h201927.4h20202.7h20211.6h20222.0h20233.2h20242.9h2025

Iowa's worst year on record was 2020 (peak 114,873 customers out) · decade average 4.4 hrs per customer/yr.

See how Iowa ranks against every state →

What causes outages in Iowa

Share of outage-time by reported cause, aggregated across all counties.

Trees / vegetation
45.9%
Equipment failure
35.5%
Vehicle / accident
8.3%
Planned / maintenance
7.6%
Animal / wildlife
2.8%

A reported cause is available for 17.8% of outage-time over 1 month of live data. Shares above are of the portion with a known cause.

Official reliability

Source: US EIA
EIA reliability not reported

Major disturbances (DOE)

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Electric providers in Iowa

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