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2016 Dickinson County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Dickinson County, IA went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 788th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dickinson County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 14, 2016 20:00 | June 15, 2016 21:00 | 1d 1h | 3,770 | 13K |
| 2 | April 18, 2016 18:45 | April 18, 2016 20:30 | 1h 45m | 1,621 | 811 |
| 3 | June 9, 2016 17:30 | June 9, 2016 18:15 | 45m | 1,160 | 303 |
| 4 | May 23, 2016 13:00 | May 23, 2016 14:15 | 1h 15m | 977 | 490 |
| 5 | October 5, 2016 13:45 | October 5, 2016 14:15 | 30m | 893 | 261 |
| 6 | August 11, 2016 09:00 | August 11, 2016 11:15 | 2h 15m | 765 | 898 |
| 7 | June 11, 2016 01:00 | June 11, 2016 15:00 | 14h | 642 | 893 |
| 8 | February 8, 2016 15:30 | February 8, 2016 17:30 | 2h | 608 | 609 |
| 9 | May 26, 2016 05:45 | May 26, 2016 15:30 | 9h 45m | 595 | 1,651 |
| 10 | April 15, 2016 13:30 | April 15, 2016 16:45 | 3h 15m | 548 | 424 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 25 reached 100+ customers, 3 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Dickinson County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2016 | 55 min | 0.50 | 54 min | 0.49 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 |
| Osceola Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 5.20 | 3.4 hrs | 5.20 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Park - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Milford - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Iowa's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,731 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Dickinson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickinson County, IA annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/iowa/dickinson-county