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Iowa Power Outages

As of October 15, 2026 00:30 UTC, about 85 customers are currently without power across 10 counties in Iowa.

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October 15, 2026 00:30 UTC
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MassOutage

MassOutage, "Iowa Power Outages", live data as of October 15, 2026 00:30 UTC. https://massoutage.com/iowa

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COUNTIES WITH ACTIVE OUTAGES

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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
85customers out · peak 719
Data as of Oct 15, 2026 00:30 UTC
Iowa: customers without power, last 24 hoursPeak 719 customers out; latest 85 as of Oct 15, 2026 00:30 UTC. Each point is the highest reading in its interval.0200400600800Oct 146 AM12 PM6 PM
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Times in EDT. Shaded stretches had no reading.

Cost of power in Iowa

▲ 31% 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
16.0¢
per kWh
Commercial
13.3¢
per kWh
Industrial
10.0¢
per kWh
RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh BY YEAR
Iowa residential electricity price by year2010–2025: 2010 10.5¢, 2011 10.5¢, 2012 10.8¢, 2013 11.1¢, 2014 11.2¢, 2015 11.7¢, 2016 11.9¢, 2017 12.3¢, 2018 12.3¢, 2019 12.5¢, 2020 12.5¢, 2021 12.7¢, 2022 13.2¢, 2023 13.3¢, 2024 13.4¢, 2025 13.7¢.05101510.5¢201010.5¢10.8¢201211.1¢11.2¢201411.7¢11.9¢201612.3¢12.3¢201812.5¢12.5¢202012.7¢13.2¢202213.3¢13.4¢202413.7¢
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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.

Sioux CityWOODBURY COUNTY5AmesSTORY COUNTY2Cedar RapidsLINN COUNTY1MarionLINN COUNTY1

A decade of outages in Iowa

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

Iowa outage hours per customer by year2015–2025: 2015 1.1h, 2016 1.8h, 2017 2.0h, 2018 2.2h, 2019 2.2h, 2020 27.3h, 2021 2.7h, 2022 1.6h, 2023 2.0h, 2024 3.2h, 2025 2.9h. Highlighted: 2020 (highest).01020301.1h20151.8h20162.0h20172.2h20182.2h201927.3h20202.7h20211.6h20222.0h20233.2h20242.9h2025
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Iowa's worst year on record was 2020 (peak 487,454 customers out at once) · decade average 4.4 hrs per customer/yr.

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What causes outages in Iowa

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

Outage causes by share of outage-timeWeather / storm 83.6%, Trees / vegetation 13.6%, Equipment failure 1.5%, Planned / maintenance 1.3%, Animal / wildlife 0.1%Weather / stormWeather / storm83.6%Trees / vegetationTrees / vegetation13.6%Equipment failureEquipment failure1.5%Planned / maintenancePlanned / maintenance1.3%Animal / wildlifeAnimal / wildlife0.1%
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A reported cause is available for 7.7% of outage-time over 2 months of live data. Shares are of the portion with a known cause; bars are scaled to the largest cause.

Official reliability (EIA 2025)

Source: US EIA
3.1 hrs
SAIDI, avg outage/customer/yr
1.1
SAIFI, outages/customer/yr

Major disturbances (DOE)

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Electric providers in Iowa

0% of Iowa customers are served by utilities with a live county-level feed; 9% have no live feed. Our coverage →

All Iowa counties

Data from DOE/ORNL ODIN and DOE EAGLE-I, every source we read. Machine-readable data: /api/v1/live/map. Live data as of .