Power Outages in O'Brien County, IA
No live outage feed is available for O'Brien County, IA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 5.3 hours.
O'Brien County, IA is served by local tracked utilities.
O'Brien County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for O'Brien County right now.
O'Brien County has been under 2 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 17, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×2
Hardest-hit cities in O'Brien County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in O'Brien County went about 5.3 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 3,169 customers.
Worst year here was 2022 (peak 3,169 customers out) · decade average 2.5 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | 649 | 0.2 |
| 2016 | 102 | 813 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 160 | 652 | 2.6 |
| 2018 | 206 | 1,477 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 196 | 834 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 164 | 1,608 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 184 | 864 | 2.5 |
| 2022 | 180 | 3,169 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 161 | 788 | 2.1 |
| 2024 | 173 | 1,314 | 3.4 |
| 2025 | 171 | 2,415 | 5.3 |
Relatively Moderate winter weather exposure · 2.5 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in O'Brien County: FAQ
- How often does O'Brien County, IA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, O'Brien County, IA logged 171 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 5.3 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in O'Brien County, IA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 3,169 customers without power, beginning July 5, 2022 and lasting about 21h.
- Is there a power outage in O'Brien County, IA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for O'Brien County, IA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within O'Brien County.
51009, 51022, 51046, 51058, 51231, 51245, 51248, 51346
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/19141 and /api/v1/counties/19141/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Iowa customers).